Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting libopenssl1_0_0 package, versions <1.0.2p-150000.3.65.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBOPENSSL100-5669038
  • published7 Jun 2023
  • disclosed7 Feb 2023

Introduced: 7 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-0286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libopenssl1_0_0 to version 1.0.2p-150000.3.65.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libopenssl1_0_0 package and not the libopenssl1_0_0 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName. X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address field as ASN1_TYPE. This field is subsequently interpreted by the OpenSSL function GENERAL_NAME_cmp as an ASN1_TYPE rather than an ASN1_STRING.

When CRL checking is enabled (i.e. the application sets the X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK flag), this vulnerability may allow an attacker to pass arbitrary pointers to a memcmp call, enabling them to read memory contents or enact a denial of service. In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network.

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