Double Free Affecting libopenssl1_1-hmac package, versions <1.1.1d-150200.11.57.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES153-LIBOPENSSL11HMAC-3315227
- published 8 Feb 2023
- disclosed 7 Feb 2023
Introduced: 7 Feb 2023
CVE-2022-4450 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.3
libopenssl1_1-hmac
to version 1.1.1d-150200.11.57.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libopenssl1_1-hmac
package and not the libopenssl1_1-hmac
package as distributed by SLES
.
See How to fix?
for SLES:15.3
relevant fixed versions and status.
The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the "name" (e.g. "CERTIFICATE"), any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the "name_out", "header" and "data" arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data. The caller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a PEM file that results in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex() will return a failure code but will populate the header argument with a pointer to a buffer that has already been freed. If the caller also frees this buffer then a double free will occur. This will most likely lead to a crash. This could be exploited by an attacker who has the ability to supply malicious PEM files for parsing to achieve a denial of service attack.
The functions PEM_read_bio() and PEM_read() are simple wrappers around PEM_read_bio_ex() and therefore these functions are also directly affected.
These functions are also called indirectly by a number of other OpenSSL functions including PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio_ex() and SSL_CTX_use_serverinfo_file() which are also vulnerable. Some OpenSSL internal uses of these functions are not vulnerable because the caller does not free the header argument if PEM_read_bio_ex() returns a failure code. These locations include the PEM_read_bio_TYPE() functions as well as the decoders introduced in OpenSSL 3.0.
The OpenSSL asn1parse command line application is also impacted by this issue.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4450.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207538
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1225628
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=63bcf189be73a9cc1264059bed6f57974be74a83
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=bbcf509bd046b34cca19c766bbddc31683d0858b
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08