GHSA-vr8j-hgmm-jh9r

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vr8j-hgmm-jh9r

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/12/GHSA-vr8j-hgmm-jh9r/GHSA-vr8j-hgmm-jh9r.json

Aliases

• CVE-2022-3996

Published

2022-12-13T18:30:33Z

Modified

2023-11-08T04:10:21.631374Z

Details

If an X.509 certificate contains a malformed policy constraint and policy processing is enabled, then a write lock will be taken twice recursively. On some operating systems (most widely: Windows) this results in a denial of service when the affected process hangs. Policy processing being enabled on a publicly facing server is not considered to be a common setup. Policy processing is enabled by passing the -policy' argument to the command line utilities or by calling eitherX509VERIFYPARAMadd0policy()' or `X509VERIFYPARAMset1policies()' functions.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3996
• https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7725e7bfe6f2ce8146b6552b44e0d226be7638e7
• https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20221213.txt