CVE-2023-0286 (GCVE-0-2023-0286)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-08 19:01 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:14
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Title
X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName
Summary
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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CWE
  • type confusion vulnerability
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OpenSSL OpenSSL Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.0.8 (semver)
Affected: 1.1.1 , < 1.1.1t (custom)
Affected: 1.0.2 , < 1.0.2zg (custom)
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David Benjamin (Google) Hugo Landau
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