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CVE-2022-3786

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CVE-2022-3786

Published: Nov 1, 2022

Modified: Apr 14, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to have signed a malicious certificate or for an application to continue certificate verification despite failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. An attacker can craft a malicious email address in a certificate to overflow an arbitrary number of bytes containing the `.' character (decimal 46) on the stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service). In a TLS client, this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server requests client authentication and a malicious client connects.

VendorProductVersions

OpenSSL

OpenSSL

affected
3.0.0 - < 3.0.7

References

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