CVE-2026-34180

Technical Description

Issue summary: Parsing a crafted DER-encoded ASN.1 structure with a primitive

element whose content exceeds 2 gigabytes in length may cause a heap buffer

over-read on 64-bit Unix and Unix-like platforms.

Impact summary: The heap buffer over-read may crash the application (Denial of

Service) or to load into the decoded ASN.1 object contents of memory beyond the

end of the input buffer. More typically such ASN.1 elements would instead be

truncated.

An integer truncation in OpenSSL's ASN.1 decoder causes the content length of

an ASN.1 primitive element to be mishandled when it exceeds 2 gigabytes. In the

worst case the truncated length is treated as a request to scan the binary

content for a terminating zero byte, possibly causing OpenSSL to read either

less than or beyond the end of the allocated buffer.

Applications that pass attacker-supplied data to d2i_X509(), d2i_PKCS7(), or

any other d2i_* decoding function are affected. OpenSSL's own command-line

tools are not vulnerable, as d

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