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New Infinite Loop Bug in OpenSSL Could Let Attackers Crash Remote Servers
2022-03-16 06:52

The maintainers of OpenSSL have shipped patches to resolve a high-severity security flaw in its software library that could lead to a denial-of-service condition when parsing certificates. "Since certificate parsing happens prior to verification of the certificate signature, any process that parses an externally supplied certificate may thus be subject to a denial-of-service attack," OpenSSL said in an advisory published on March 15, 2022.