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golang-fips/openssl · Security

Memory leaks in code encrypting and verifying RSA payloads

GHSA ID
GHSA-78hx-gp6g-7mj6
CVE ID
CVE-2024-1394
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Using crafted public RSA keys which are not compliant with SP 800-56B can cause a small memory leak when encrypting and verifying payloads.

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where the host crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.

CWEs

  • CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

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