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Excessive time spent checking invalid RSA public keys

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Issue summary: Checking excessively long invalid RSA public keys may take a long time. Impact summary: Applications that use the function EVP_PKEY_public_check() to check RSA public keys may experience long delays. Where the key that is being checked has been obtained from an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service. When function EVP_PKEY_public_check() is called on RSA public keys, a computation is done to confirm that the RSA modulus, n, is composite. For valid RSA keys, n is a product of two or more large primes and this computation completes quickly. However, if n is an overly large prime, then this computation would take a long time. An application that calls EVP_PKEY_public_check() and supplies an RSA key obtained from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack. The function EVP_PKEY_public_check() is not called from other OpenSSL functions however it is called from the OpenSSL pkey command line application. For that reason that application is also vulnerable if used with the '-pubin' and '-check' options on untrusted data. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue. The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are affected by this issue.

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CVE-2023-6237

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2023-6237

OpenSSL

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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  {
    "vendor": "OpenSSL",
    "product": "OpenSSL",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.0.0",
        "lessThan": "3.0.13",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.1.0",
        "lessThan": "3.1.5",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.2.0",
        "lessThan": "3.2.1",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
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