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FreeBSD -- Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL

Affected packages
13.1 <= FreeBSD < 13.1_7
12.4 <= FreeBSD < 12.4_2
12.3 <= FreeBSD < 12.3_12

Details

VuXML ID c8eb4c40-47bd-11ee-8e38-002590c1f29c
Discovery 2023-02-16
Entry 2023-08-31

Problem Description:

X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName. X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address field as ASN1_TYPE. This field is subsequently interpreted by the OpenSSL function GENERAL_NAME_cmp as an ASN1_TYPE rather than an ASN1_STRING.

Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption (CVE-2022-4304)

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation.

Use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215)

The public API function BIO_new_NDEF is a helper function used for streaming ASN.1 data via a BIO. It is primarily used internally to OpenSSL to support the SMIME, CMS and PKCS7 streaming capabilities, but may also be called directly by end user applications.

The function receives a BIO from the caller, prepends a new BIO_f_asn1 filter BIO onto the front of it to form a BIO chain, and then returns the new head of the BIO chain to the caller. Under certain conditions, for example if a CMS recipient public key is invalid, the new filter BIO is freed and the function returns a NULL result indicating a failure. However, in this case, the BIO chain is not properly cleaned up and the BIO passed by the caller still retains internal pointers to the previously freed filter BIO.

Double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450)

The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the "name" (e.g. "CERTIFICATE"), any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the "name_out", "header" and "data" arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data. The caller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a PEM file that results in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex() will return a failure code but will populate the header argument with a pointer to a buffer that has already been freed.

Impact:

X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

When CRL checking is enabled (i.e. the application sets the X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK flag), this vulnerability may allow an attacker to pass arbitrary pointers to a memcmp call, enabling them to read memory contents or enact a denial of service. In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network.

Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption (CVE-2022-4304)

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE.

Use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215)

A use-after-free will occur under certain conditions. This will most likely result in a crash.

Double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450)

A double free may occur. This will most likely lead to a crash. This could be exploited by an attacker who has the ability to supply malicious PEM files for parsing to achieve a denial of service attack.

References

CVE Name CVE-2022-4304
CVE Name CVE-2022-4450
CVE Name CVE-2023-0215
CVE Name CVE-2023-0286
FreeBSD Advisory SA-23:03.openssl