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Unscored CVE-2019-16748 EUVD-2019-7288GHSA-44q4-7h77-fj8h

In wolfSSL through 4.1.0, there is a missing sanity check of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifica…

Published Sep 24, 2019 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

In wolfSSL through 4.1.0, there is a missing sanity check of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer over-read in CheckCertSignature_ex in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 13 wolfssl 4.2.0+dfsg-1 —
Debian 12 wolfssl 4.2.0+dfsg-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS wolfssl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS wolfssl No fix yet —

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