CVE-2023-0286

Technical Description

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

ap

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from openssl. Update openssl to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References