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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: openssl

Published: 2023-02-08T19:01:50.514Z

Updated: 2023-03-27T18:25:32.958867Z

Reserved: 2023-01-13T10:40:41.259Z


Link: CVE-2023-0286

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-08T20:15:24.267

Modified: 2024-02-04T09:15:09.113


Link: CVE-2023-0286

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