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rust-openssl vulnerabilities
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Matt Mastracci discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling server lifetimes in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or run arbitrary memory content to the client. (CVE-2025-24898) It was discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling empty strings when setting the host in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-53159) It was discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling property arguments in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-3416)
- Products
- rust-openssl
- Affected versions
- 0.10.23-1, 0.10.29-1, 0.10.36-1, 0.10.45-1, 0.10.57-1
- Fixed versions
- 0.10.23-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 0.10.36-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 0.10.57-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-53159, CVE-2025-24898, CVE-2025-3416
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Matt Mastracci discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling server lifetimes in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or run arbitrary memory content to the client. (CVE-2025-24898) It was discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling empty strings when setting the host in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-53159) It was discovered that rust-openssl was incorrectly handling property arguments in certain functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2025-3416)
osv:USN-7891-1
rust-openssl
Fixed versions: 0.10.23-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
rust-openssl
Fixed versions: 0.10.36-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
rust-openssl
Fixed versions: 0.10.57-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Complete source record
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