Description
If an X.509 certificate contains a malformed policy constraint and
policy processing is enabled, then a write lock will be taken twice
recursively. On some operating systems (most widely: Windows) this
results in a denial of service when the affected process hangs. Policy
processing being enabled on a publicly facing server is not considered
to be a common setup.

Policy processing is enabled by passing the `-policy'
argument to the command line utilities or by calling the
`X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function.

Update (31 March 2023): The description of the policy processing enablement
was corrected based on CVE-2023-0466.
Published: 2022-12-13
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-7750 If an X.509 certificate contains a malformed policy constraint and policy processing is enabled, then a write lock will be taken twice recursively. On some operating systems (most widely: Windows) this results in a denial of service when the affected process hangs. Policy processing being enabled on a publicly facing server is not considered to be a common setup. Policy processing is enabled by passing the `-policy' argument to the command line utilities or by calling the `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function. Update (31 March 2023): The description of the policy processing enablement was corrected based on CVE-2023-0466.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vr8j-hgmm-jh9r Denial of service by double-checked locking in openssl-src
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6039-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: openssl

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.475Z

Reserved: 2022-11-15T11:47:05.740Z

Link: CVE-2022-3996

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.475Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-13T16:15:22.007

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:20:42.003

Link: CVE-2022-3996

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3996 - Bugzilla

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