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openssl CVE-2022-4450

Moderate
bcressey published GHSA-hwmc-qjm8-p3vj Mar 13, 2023

Package

openssl (bottlerocket-test-system)

Affected versions

< 0.0.6

Patched versions

0.0.6

Description

A double-free vulnerability exists in OpenSSL where it is possible to construct a malicious PEM file that has 0 bytes of payload data. This then points to data that has already been freed in memory which, when freed again, leads to a crash. Agents or clients compiled with OpenSSL may crash unexpectedly when parsing these PEM files.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2022-4450

Weaknesses

No CWEs