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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0113 Critical: Openssl Infinite Loop Threat

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The patch for Fedora tackles a severe openssl vulnerability—a never-ending cycle in parsing certificates.
Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates

Summary

Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates. (CVE-2022-0778)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30174

- https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20220315.txt

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5328-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0778

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/openssl-1.1.1n-1.mga8

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Publication date: 23 Mar 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0113.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-0778

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