CVE-2017-3735
MEDIUMEPSS 97th pctlDescription
While parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate, it is possible to do a one-byte overread. This would result in an incorrect text display of the certificate. This bug has been present since 2006 and is present in all versions of OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0g.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100515
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039726
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3221
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/068b963bb7afc57f5bdd723de0dd15e7795d5822
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00011.html
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:11.openssl.asc
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-03
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170927-0001/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171107-0002/
- https://support.apple.com/HT208331
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3611-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4017
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4018
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20170828.txt
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20171102.txt
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-14
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-15
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