CVE-2017-3735

medium
Published 2017-08-28 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

While parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate, it is possible to do a one-byte overread. This would result in an incorrect text display of the certificate. This bug has been present since 2006 and is present in all versions of OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0g.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:1.1.0.g-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.1.0g-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.1.0g-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.1.0g-1
debian debiansidfixed1.1.0g-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.1.0g-1
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7j
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7k
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7l
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.7m
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8a
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8b
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8c
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8d
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8e
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8f
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8g
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8h
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8i
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8j
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8k
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8l
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8m
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8n
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8o
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8p
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8q
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8r
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8s
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8t
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8u
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8v
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8w
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8x
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8y
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8z
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8za
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8zb
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8zc
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8ze
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8zg
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0m
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0n
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0o
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0p
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0q
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0r
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0s
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2l
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0a
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0b
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0c
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0d
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0e
openssl opensslopenssl1.1.0f

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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