Excessive time spent checking DH q parameter value
Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters may be very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex() or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or DH parameters may experience long delays. Where the key or parameters that are being checked have been obtained from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service. The function DH_check() performs various checks on DH parameters. After fixing CVE-2023-3446 it was discovered that a large q parameter value can also trigger an overly long computation during some of these checks. A correct q value, if present, cannot be larger than the modulus p parameter, thus it is unnecessary to perform these checks if q is larger than p. An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. The function DH_check() is itself called by a number of other OpenSSL functions. An application calling any of those other functions may similarly be affected. The other functions affected by this are DH_check_ex() and EVP_PKEY_param_check(). Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL dhparam and pkeyparam command line applications when using the "-check" option. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue. The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are not affected by this issue.
CVE-2023-3817
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2023-3817
OpenSSL
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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Structured affected-version data
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"vendor": "OpenSSL",
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"status": "affected",
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"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "3.0.0",
"lessThan": "3.0.10",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "1.1.1",
"lessThan": "1.1.1v",
"versionType": "custom"
},
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "1.0.2",
"lessThan": "1.0.2zi",
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"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2023-3817
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- #23250 · Revision 1
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