GHSA-g323-fr93-4j3c

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g323-fr93-4j3c
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-g323-fr93-4j3c/GHSA-g323-fr93-4j3c.json
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Published
2022-05-04T00:00:22Z
Modified
2023-11-08T04:07:49.486512Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Resource leakage when decoding certificates and keys
Details

The OPENSSLLHflush() function, which empties a hash table, contains a bug that breaks reuse of the memory occuppied by the removed hash table entries. This function is used when decoding certificates or keys. If a long lived process periodically decodes certificates or keys its memory usage will expand without bounds and the process might be terminated by the operating system causing a denial of service. Also traversing the empty hash table entries will take increasingly more time. Typically such long lived processes might be TLS clients or TLS servers configured to accept client certificate authentication. The function was added in the OpenSSL 3.0 version thus older releases are not affected by the issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.3 (Affected 3.0.0,3.0.1,3.0.2).

References

Affected packages

crates.io / openssl-src

Package

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
300.0.0
Fixed
300.0.6