[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wolfssl: add upstream security fix for CVE-2019–18840

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Nov 29 09:13:05 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:

 > Fixes the following security vulnerability:
 > - CVE-2019-18840: In wolfSSL 4.1.0 through 4.2.0c, there are missing sanity
 >   checks of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while
 >   handshaking.  Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer overflow
 >   inside the DecodedCert structure in GetName in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c because
 >   the domain name location index is mishandled.  Because a pointer is
 >   overwritten, there is an invalid free.

 > For details, see the writeup:
 > https://medium.com/@social_62682/heap-overflow-in-wolfssl-cve-2019-18840-185d233c27de

 > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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