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CVE Details

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CVE Details

CVE-2022-4450

Last Update

7/16/2024

NIST CVE Summary

The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the "name" (e.g. "CERTIFICATE"), any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the "name_out", "header" and "data" arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data. The caller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a PEM file that results in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex() will return a failure code but will populate the header argument with a pointer to a buffer that has already been freed. If the caller also frees this buffer then a double free will occur. This will most likely lead to a crash.

Our Official Summary

This is a false positive reported by twistlock. We have confirmed this CVE is fixed in the FIPS openSSL version 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.fips.22 that’s being used in VerteX. Additional information can be found at https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-4450

CVE Severity

7.5

Status

Ongoing