CVE-2022-39173

Summary

CVECVE-2022-39173
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-29 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-08 14:22:00 UTC
DescriptionIn wolfSSL before 5.5.1, malicious clients can cause a buffer overflow during a TLS 1.3 handshake. This occurs when an attacker supposedly resumes a previous TLS session. During the resumption Client Hello a Hello Retry Request must be triggered. Both Client Hellos are required to contain a list of duplicate cipher suites to trigger the buffer overflow. In total, two Client Hellos have to be sent: one in the resumed session, and a second one as a response to a Hello Retry Request message.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wolfssl Wolfssl All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
wolfSSL Security Vulnerabilities | Documentation – wolfSSL MISC www.wolfssl.com
Keeping the wolves out of wolfSSL | Trail of Bits Blog MISC blog.trailofbits.com
Releases · wolfSSL/wolfssl · GitHub MISC github.com
Full Disclosure: wolfssl before 5.5.1: CVE-2022-39173 Buffer overflow when refining cipher suites FULLDISC seclists.org
wolfSSL Buffer Overflow ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 183341 Debian Security Update for wolfssl (CVE-2022-39173)
  • 502968 Alpine Linux Security Update for wolfssl
  • 505834 Alpine Linux Security Update for wolfssl
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