CVE-2023-0216 (GCVE-0-2023-0216)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-08 19:03 – Updated: 2025-11-04 19:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Invalid pointer dereference in d2i_PKCS7 functions
Summary
An invalid pointer dereference on read can be triggered when an
application tries to load malformed PKCS7 data with the
d2i_PKCS7(), d2i_PKCS7_bio() or d2i_PKCS7_fp() functions.
The result of the dereference is an application crash which could
lead to a denial of service attack. The TLS implementation in OpenSSL
does not call this function however third party applications might
call these functions on untrusted data.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:26 UTC
CWE
- invalid pointer dereference
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2023-02-07 00:00
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