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While parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 28, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-3735

GHSA ID

GHSA-6h3q-hmhp-4vgv

Source code

No known source code

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