Bug 2087913 (CVE-2022-1473)

Summary:	CVE-2022-1473 openssl: OPENSSL_LH_flush() breaks reuse of memory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, bmontgom, bootloader-eng-team, cfergeau, crobinso, crypto-team, csutherl, dbelyavs, ddepaula, dueno, elima, eparis, epel-packagers-sig, erik-fedora, fmartine, gzaronik, hkario, jburrell, jclere, jferlan, jokerman, jwon, krathod, kraxel, ktietz, marcandre.lureau, michel, mjg59, mspacek, mturk, nstielau, ntait, pbonzini, philmd, pjindal, pjones, redhat-bugzilla, rharwood, rh-spice-bugs, rjones, sahana, sponnaga, szappis, tcullum, tm, virt-maint, virt-maint
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	openssl 3.0.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A memory leak flaw was found in OpenSSL, resulting in TLS servers and clients being halted by out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service. An attacker needs to repeat actions continuously to trigger this vulnerability, resulting in a loss of application availability.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2089443, 2089444, 2089474
Bug Blocks:	2087910

Description Patrick Del Bello 2022-05-18 14:21:51 UTC

The OPENSSL_LH_flush() function, which empties a hash table, contains a bug that breaks reuse of the memory occuppied by the removed hash table entries. This function is used when decoding certificates or keys. If a long lived process periodically decodes certificates or keys its memory usage will expand without bounds and the process might be terminated by the operating system causing a denial of service. Also traversing the empty hash table entries will take increasingly more time. Typically such long lived processes might be TLS clients or TLS servers configured to accept client certificate authentication. The function was added in the OpenSSL 3.0 version thus older releases are not affected by the issue. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.3 (Affected 3.0.0,3.0.1,3.0.2).

https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=64c85430f95200b6b51fe9475bd5203f7c19daf1
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20220503.txt

Comment 2 Todd Cullum 2022-05-23 18:43:11 UTC

Created openssl3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-8 [bug 2089474]

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-06-25 20:09:31 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-1473

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-08-30 16:02:13 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2022:6224 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6224