NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENSSL-9688668
- published12 Apr 2025
- disclosed7 Feb 2023
Introduced: 7 Feb 2023
CVE-2023-0216 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl package and not the openssl package as distributed by RHEL.
An invalid pointer dereference on read can be triggered when an application tries to load malformed PKCS7 data with the d2i_PKCS7(), d2i_PKCS7_bio() or d2i_PKCS7_fp() functions.
The result of the dereference is an application crash which could lead to a denial of service attack. The TLS implementation in OpenSSL does not call this function however third party applications might call these functions on untrusted data.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0216
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0946
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=934a04f0e775309cadbef0aa6b9692e1b12a76c6
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2023-0003
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt