Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libopenssl3 package, versions <3.0.8-150400.4.26.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-LIBOPENSSL3-5673359
  • published9 Jun 2023
  • disclosed8 Jun 2023

Introduced: 8 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-1255  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 libopenssl3 to version 3.0.8-150400.4.26.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libopenssl3 package and not the libopenssl3 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

Issue summary: The AES-XTS cipher decryption implementation for 64 bit ARM platform contains a bug that could cause it to read past the input buffer, leading to a crash.

Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-XTS algorithm on the 64 bit ARM platform can crash in rare circumstances. The AES-XTS algorithm is usually used for disk encryption.

The AES-XTS cipher decryption implementation for 64 bit ARM platform will read past the end of the ciphertext buffer if the ciphertext size is 4 mod 5 in 16 byte blocks, e.g. 144 bytes or 1024 bytes. If the memory after the ciphertext buffer is unmapped, this will trigger a crash which results in a denial of service.

If an attacker can control the size and location of the ciphertext buffer being decrypted by an application using AES-XTS on 64 bit ARM, the application is affected. This is fairly unlikely making this issue a Low severity one.

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