#VU70414 Buffer overflow in OpenSSL - CVE-2015-0292

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#VU70414 Buffer overflow in OpenSSL - CVE-2015-0292

Published: December 19, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU70414
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
Vulnerable software:
OpenSSL
Software vendor:
OpenSSL Software Foundation

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.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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