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openssl CVE-2022-4450

Moderate
cbgbt published GHSA-3wxx-jxwc-mg39 Feb 9, 2023

Package

openssl (bottlerocket-update-operator)

Affected versions

< 1.1.0

Patched versions

1.1.0

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