Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-OPENSSL-373836
  • published27 Mar 2018
  • disclosed27 Mar 2018

Introduced: 27 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-0739  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl package and not the openssl package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition (such as can be found in PKCS7) could eventually exceed the stack given malicious input with excessive recursion. This could result in a Denial Of Service attack. There are no such structures used within SSL/TLS that come from untrusted sources so this is considered safe. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0h (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0g). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2o (Affected 1.0.2b-1.0.2n).

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