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CVE-2021-23840

Public on 2021-02-16
Modified on 2021-03-19
Description

Calls to EVP_CipherUpdate, EVP_EncryptUpdate and EVP_DecryptUpdate may overflow the output length argument in some cases where the input length is close to the maximum permissible length for an integer on the platform. In such cases the return value from the function call will be 1 (indicating success), but the output length value will be negative. This could cause applications to behave incorrectly or crash.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssl 2021-02-23 20:18 ALAS-2021-1482
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl 2021-02-19 01:21 ALAS2-2021-1608
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl11 2021-03-18 01:40 ALAS2-2021-1612
Amazon Linux 2 - Core edk2 2024-03-13 20:26 ALAS2-2024-2502

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H