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OpenSSL Security Advisory 20171207

Posted Dec 7, 2017

Site openssl.org

OpenSSL Security Advisory 20171207 - OpenSSL 1.0.2 (starting from version 1.0.2b) introduced an "error state" mechanism. The intent was that if a fatal error occurred during a handshake then OpenSSL would move into the error state and would immediately fail if you attempted to continue the handshake. This works as designed for the explicit handshake functions (SSL_do_handshake(), SSL_accept() and SSL_connect()), however due to a bug it does not work correctly if SSL_read() or SSL_write() is called directly. In that scenario, if the handshake fails then a fatal error will be returned in the initial function call. If SSL_read()/SSL_write() is subsequently called by the application for the same SSL object then it will succeed and the data is passed without being decrypted/encrypted directly from the SSL/TLS record layer. Other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory

advisories | CVE-2015-3193, CVE-2016-0701, CVE-2017-3732, CVE-2017-3736, CVE-2017-3737, CVE-2017-3738

SHA-256 | 5b23d35b31c30e0ba27356ef231c18b5e034386ca01935b4c9740a2cf6a7469b

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