DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31789
Issue summary: Converting an excessively large OCTET STRING value to a hexadecimal string leads to a heap buffer overflow on 32 bit platforms. Impact summary: A heap buffer overflow may lead to a crash or possibly an attacker controlled code execution or other undefined behavior. If an attacker can supply a crafted X.509 certificate with an excessively large OCTET STRING value in extensions such as the Subject Key Identifier (SKID) or Authority Key Identifier (AKID) which are being converted to hex, the size of the buffer needed for the result is calculated as multiplication of the input length by 3. On 32 bit platforms, this multiplication may overflow resulting in the allocation of a smaller buffer and a heap buffer overflow. Applications and services that print or log contents of untrusted X.509 certificates are vulnerable to this issue. As the certificates would have to have sizes of over 1 Gigabyte, printing or logging such certificates is a fairly unlikely operation and only 32 bit platforms are affected, this issue was assigned Low severity. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31789
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31789
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/versions3.0.18-1~deb12u2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.19-1~deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions3.0.9-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions - Fixed versions
- 3.0.19-1~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/versions3.5.4-1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions3.5.4-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions3.5.4-1~deb13u2Source reference:
/affected/1/versions3.5.5-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions - Fixed versions
- 3.5.5-1~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/versions3.5.5-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.5-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.5-1~deb13u2Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.6-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.6-1~deb13u2Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.7-1~deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.7-1~deb13u2Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.5.7-1~deb13u3Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.6.0-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.6.0-2Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.6.0~~alpha1-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.6.0~~beta1-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.6.1-1Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.6.1-2Source reference:
/affected/2/versions3.6.1-3Source reference:
/affected/2/versions - Fixed versions
- 3.6.2-1
Source reference:
/affected/2/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.0.19-1~deb12u2"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "openssl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/openssl?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
"ecosystem": "Debian:12"
},
"versions": [
"3.0.10-1",
"3.0.10-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.11-1",
"3.0.11-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.11-1~deb12u2",
"3.0.12-1",
"3.0.12-2",
"3.0.13-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.13-1~deb12u2",
"3.0.14-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.14-1~deb12u2",
"3.0.15-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.16-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.17-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.17-1~deb12u2",
"3.0.17-1~deb12u3",
"3.0.18-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.18-1~deb12u2",
"3.0.19-1~deb12u1",
"3.0.9-1"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31789.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.5.5-1~deb13u2"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "openssl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/openssl?arch=source&distro=trixie",
"ecosystem": "Debian:13"
},
"versions": [
"3.5.1-1",
"3.5.1-1+deb13u1",
"3.5.2-1",
"3.5.3-1",
"3.5.4-1",
"3.5.4-1~deb13u1",
"3.5.4-1~deb13u2",
"3.5.5-1~deb13u1"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31789.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.6.2-1"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "openssl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/openssl?arch=source&distro=forky",
"ecosystem": "Debian:14"
},
"versions": [
"3.5.1-1",
"3.5.2-1",
"3.5.3-1",
"3.5.4-1",
"3.5.4-1~deb13u1",
"3.5.4-1~deb13u2",
"3.5.5-1",
"3.5.5-1~deb13u1",
"3.5.5-1~deb13u2",
"3.5.6-1~deb13u1",
"3.5.6-1~deb13u2",
"3.5.7-1~deb13u1",
"3.5.7-1~deb13u2",
"3.5.7-1~deb13u3",
"3.6.0-1",
"3.6.0-2",
"3.6.0~~alpha1-1",
"3.6.0~~beta1-1",
"3.6.1-1",
"3.6.1-2",
"3.6.1-3"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31789.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #56356 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date