Bug 1220612 (CVE-2023-6247)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-6247: openvpn: null pointer when PKCS7 is invalid
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Mohd Saquib <mohd.saquib>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	thomas.leroy
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/395630/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-02-29 08:40:24 UTC

The PKCS#7 parser in OpenVPN 3 Core Library versions through 3.8.3 did not properly validate the parsed data, which would result in the application crashing.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-6247
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6247
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2023-6247

Comment 1 Thomas Leroy 2024-02-29 08:47:18 UTC

pkcs7 is not supported in openvpn 2. None of the codestream is affected. Closing