Description
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.
Published: 2017-05-04
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7933 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: openssl

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:52:38.446Z

Reserved: 2016-08-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-7053

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-04T19:29:00.213

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-7053

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-11-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7053 - Bugzilla

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