Buffer overflow in OpenSSL - CVE-2015-0292
Published: December 19, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU70414
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0292
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenSSL Software Foundation
Affected software:
OpenSSL
OpenSSL
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the EVP_DecodeUpdate function in crypto/evp/encode.c in the base64-decoding implementation. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack or possibly have unspecified other impact.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-0292
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=d0666f289ac013094bbbf547bfbcd616199b7d2d
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202395
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152844.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152733.html
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