Buffer overflow in OpenSSL - CVE-2015-0292

 

Buffer overflow in OpenSSL - CVE-2015-0292

Published: December 19, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU70414
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0292
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

OpenSSL
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
openssl
dev-libs/openssl
IBM Integrated Management Module
FOS Firmware
QLogic 8Gb Intelligent Pass-thru Module & SAN Switch Module for BladeCenter

How to mitigate CVE-2015-0292

Install updates from vendor's website.

OpenSSL - addressed in versions 0.9.8za, 1.0.0m, 1.0.1h
openssl - addressed in versions 1.0.1k-6.fc21, 1.0.1k-6.fc22
dev-libs/openssl - update to 1.0.1l-r1
IBM Integrated Management Module - update to 1.49 YUOOG9A
FOS Firmware - addressed in versions 7.2.1e, 7.3.1b, 7.4.0a
QLogic 8Gb Intelligent Pass-thru Module & SAN Switch Module for BladeCenter - update to 7.10.1.35.00

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