Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting openssl1.0 package, versions <1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.11


Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-OPENSSL10-3314797
  • published 8 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 8 Feb 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 openssl1.0 to version 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.11 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl1.0 package and not the openssl1.0 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

7.4 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.4 high
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SUSE

7.4 high
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Red Hat

7.4 high