DEBIAN-CVE-2026-22796
Issue summary: A type confusion vulnerability exists in the signature verification of signed PKCS#7 data where an ASN1_TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid or NULL pointer dereference when processing malformed PKCS#7 data. Impact summary: An application performing signature verification of PKCS#7 data or calling directly the PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() function can be caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer when reading, resulting in a Denial of Service. The function PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() accesses the message digest attribute value without validating its type. When the type is not V_ASN1_OCTET_STRING, this results in accessing invalid memory through the ASN1_TYPE union, causing a crash. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to provide a malformed signed PKCS#7 to an application that verifies it. The impact of the exploit is just a Denial of Service, the PKCS7 API is legacy and applications should be using the CMS API instead. For these reasons the issue was assessed as Low severity. The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the PKCS#7 parsing implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-22796
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-22796
openssl
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- 3.0.10-1
Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.10-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.11-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.11-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.11-1~deb12u2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.12-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.12-2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.13-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.13-1~deb12u2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.14-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.14-1~deb12u2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.15-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.16-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.17-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.17-1~deb12u2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.17-1~deb12u3Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.18-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.9-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions - Fixed versions
- 3.0.18-1~deb12u2
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
openssl
Source reference: /affected/1/package/name
- Affected versions
- 3.5.1-1
Source reference:
/affected/1/versions3.5.1-1+deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions3.5.2-1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions3.5.3-1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions3.5.4-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions - Fixed versions
- 3.5.4-1~deb13u2
Source reference:
/affected/1/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
openssl
Source reference: /affected/2/package/name
- Affected versions
- 3.5.1-1
Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.2-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.3-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.4-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.4-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.4-1~deb13u2Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.5-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.5-1~deb13u2Source reference:
/affected/2/versions - Fixed versions
- 3.5.5-1
Source reference:
/affected/2/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
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