CVE-2024-0727

NameCVE-2024-0727
DescriptionIssue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted sources might terminate abruptly. A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates and keys and may come from an untrusted source. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but OpenSSL does not correctly check for this case. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference that results in OpenSSL crashing. If an application processes PKCS12 files from an untrusted source using the OpenSSL APIs then that application will be vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL APIs that are vulnerable to this are: PKCS12_parse(), PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(), PKCS12_unpack_authsafes() and PKCS12_newpass(). We have also fixed a similar issue in SMIME_write_PKCS7(). However since this function is related to writing data we do not consider it security significant. The FIPS modules in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.
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Debian Bugs1061582

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openssl (PTS)buster1.1.1n-0+deb10u3vulnerable
buster (security)1.1.1n-0+deb10u6vulnerable
bullseye1.1.1w-0+deb11u1vulnerable
bullseye (security)1.1.1n-0+deb11u5vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)3.0.11-1~deb12u2vulnerable
sid, trixie3.2.1-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
opensslsource(unstable)3.1.5-11061582

Notes

[bookworm] - openssl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - openssl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - openssl <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS, Low severity)
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20240125.txt
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/041962b429ebe748c8b6b7922980dfb6decfef26 (master)
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/8a85df7c60ba1372ee98acc5982e902d75f52130 (master)
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/d135eeab8a5dbf72b3da5240bab9ddb7678dbd2c (openssl-3.1.5)
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/febb086d0fc1ea12181f4d833aa9b8fdf2133b3b (openssl-3.1.5)

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