Bug 1220612 (CVE-2023-6247) - VUL-0: CVE-2023-6247: openvpn: null pointer when PKCS7 is invalid
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-6247: openvpn: null pointer when PKCS7 is invalid
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2023-6247
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Mohd Saquib
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/395630/
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Reported: 2024-02-29 08:40 UTC by SMASH SMASH
Modified: 2024-02-29 08:47 UTC (History)
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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.

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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