CVE-2025-15468

NameCVE-2025-15468
DescriptionIssue summary: If an application using the SSL_CIPHER_find() function in a QUIC protocol client or server receives an unknown cipher suite from the peer, a NULL dereference occurs. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference leads to abnormal termination of the running process causing Denial of Service. Some applications call SSL_CIPHER_find() from the client_hello_cb callback on the cipher ID received from the peer. If this is done with an SSL object implementing the QUIC protocol, NULL pointer dereference will happen if the examined cipher ID is unknown or unsupported. As it is not very common to call this function in applications using the QUIC protocol and the worst outcome is Denial of Service, the issue was assessed as Low severity. The vulnerable code was introduced in the 3.2 version with the addition of the QUIC protocol support. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are not affected by this issue, as the QUIC implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openssl (PTS)bullseye1.1.1w-0+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1.1.1w-0+deb11u4fixed
bookworm3.0.18-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)3.0.18-1~deb12u2fixed
trixie3.5.4-1~deb13u1vulnerable
trixie (security)3.5.4-1~deb13u2fixed
forky, sid3.5.5-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
opensslsourcebullseye(not affected)
opensslsourcebookworm(not affected)
opensslsourcetrixie3.5.4-1~deb13u2
opensslsource(unstable)3.5.5-1

Notes

[bookworm] - openssl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[bullseye] - openssl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260127.txt
Fixed by: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/1f08e54bad32843044fe8a675948d65e3b4ece65 (openssl-3.5.5)

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