CVE-2015-5333 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Libressl

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionCWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery9 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.1%
top 15.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Openbsd LibresslApple Macos MojaveApple OS X EL Capitan 10.11.2 Security Update 2015-005 Yosemite AND Security Update 20+3 more
Timeline
PublishedJan 23
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Memory leak in the OBJ_obj2txt function in LibreSSL before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of ASN.1 object identifiers in X.509 certificates.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

▶NVDopenbsd/libressl< 2.3.1
▶CVEListV5libressl/libresslbefore 2.3.1
▶Appleapple/macos_mojave10.14

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-qrw8-4f9g-c6gc: Memory leak in the OBJ_obj2txt function in LibreSSL before 2↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2015-5333: Memory leak in the OBJ_obj2txt function in LibreSSL before 2↗2020-01-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Apple
CVE-2015-5333: macOS Mojave 10.14↗2018-09-24
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: information leaks and hardening bypass fixed in APSB15-23↗2015-09-21
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: cross-site request forgery against JSONP endpoints fixed in APSB15-11 (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-5333)↗2015-06-09
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Apple
CVE-2015-5333: OS X El Capitan v10.11.4 and Security Update 2016-002↗
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Apple
CVE-2015-5333: OS X El Capitan 10.11.2, Security Update 2015-005 Yosemite, and Security Update 2015-008 Mavericks↗
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3096 flash-plugin: cross-site request forgery against JSONP endpoints fixed in APSB15-11 (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-5333)↗2015-06-10
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