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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2023-05-12 10:00:13 +0200
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>2023-06-06 10:48:50 +0200
commitd63b3e7959e79f98d60760a739f7876dc5adc838 (patch)
tree987531abfe2b0ed71fc1f1bc6e4a40238e0aab03 /NEWS.md
parent3ca28c9e81fae36b0b44dc39beecd2b5a7561975 (diff)
Restrict the size of OBJECT IDENTIFIERs that OBJ_obj2txt will translate
OBJ_obj2txt() would translate any size OBJECT IDENTIFIER to canonical numeric text form. For gigantic sub-identifiers, this would take a very long time, the time complexity being O(n^2) where n is the size of that sub-identifier. To mitigate this, a restriction on the size that OBJ_obj2txt() will translate to canonical numeric text form is added, based on RFC 2578 (STD 58), which says this: > 3.5. OBJECT IDENTIFIER values > > An OBJECT IDENTIFIER value is an ordered list of non-negative numbers. > For the SMIv2, each number in the list is referred to as a sub-identifier, > there are at most 128 sub-identifiers in a value, and each sub-identifier > has a maximum value of 2^32-1 (4294967295 decimal). Fixes otc/security#96 Fixes CVE-2023-2650 Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
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@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ OpenSSL 3.1
### Major changes between OpenSSL 3.1.0 and OpenSSL 3.1.1 [under development]
+ * Mitigate for very slow `OBJ_obj2txt()` performance with gigantic OBJECT
+ IDENTIFIER sub-identities. ([CVE-2023-2650])
* Fixed buffer overread in AES-XTS decryption on ARM 64 bit platforms
([CVE-2023-1255])
* Fixed documentation of X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() ([CVE-2023-0466])
@@ -1468,6 +1470,8 @@ OpenSSL 0.9.x
* Support for various new platforms
<!-- Links -->
+
+[CVE-2023-2650]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-2650
[CVE-2023-1255]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-1255
[CVE-2023-0466]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0466
[CVE-2023-0465]: https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#CVE-2023-0465