CVE-2016-7053 (GCVE-0-2016-7053)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-04 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:52
VLAI
Title
CMS Null dereference
Summary
In OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0c, applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings. Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are affected.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • NULL pointer deference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OpenSSL OpenSSL Affected: openssl-1.1.0
Affected: openssl-1.1.0a
Affected: openssl-1.1.0b
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Date Public
2016-11-10 00:00
Credits
Tyler Nighswander (ForAllSecure)
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