NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting openssl package, versions <0.10.66
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- published23 Jul 2024
- disclosed22 Jul 2024
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 22 Jul 2024
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade openssl to version 0.10.66 or higher.
Overview
openssl is a bindings for the Rust programming language.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the MemBio::get_buf function. An attacker can induce undefined behavior by manipulating the input to pass an empty buffer to this function.