RUSTSEC-2022-0025

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Source

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0025

Import Source

https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/osv/crates/RUSTSEC-2022-0025.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2022-0025

Aliases

Published

2022-05-03T12:00:00Z

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 OPENSSL_LH_flush() function, which empties a hash table, contains a bug that breaks reuse of the memory occupied 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.

References

Affected packages

crates.io / openssl-src

Package

Name: openssl-src; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:cargo/openssl-src

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

300.0.0

Fixed

300.0.6

Ecosystem specific

{
    "affected_functions": null,
    "affects": {
        "os": [],
        "functions": [],
        "arch": []
    }
}

Database specific

{
    "cvss": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "informational": null,
    "categories": [
        "denial-of-service"
    ]
}