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High USN-5710-1 3 CVEs

openssl vulnerabilities

Published Nov 1, 2022 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain X.509 Email
Addresses. If a certificate authority were tricked into signing a
specially-crafted certificate, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. The
default compiler options for affected releases reduce the vulnerability to
a denial of service. (CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786)

It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled applications creating
custom ciphers via the legacy EVP_CIPHER_meth_new() function. This issue
could cause certain applications that mishandled values to the function to
possibly end up with a NULL cipher and messages in plaintext.
(CVE-2022-3358)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.7

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2022-3358 Public exploit

    Using a Custom Cipher with NID_undef may lead to NULL encryption

    OpenSSL supports creating a custom cipher via the legacy EVP_CIPHER_meth_new() function and associated function calls. This function was deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0 and application authors are instead encouraged to use the new provider mechanism in order to imp…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2022-3602 Public exploit EPSS 91%

    X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow

    A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to have signed the malicious certificate or for the ap…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2022-3786 Public exploit EPSS 92%

    X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow

    A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to have signed a malicious certificate or for an appli…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3358
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3602
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3786