CVE-2014-3508

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 24.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The OBJ_obj2txt function in crypto/objects/obj_dat.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8 before 0.9.8zb, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0n, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1i, when pretty printing is used, does not ensure the presence of '\0' characters, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process stack memory by reading output from X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex, and unspecified other functions.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 0.9.8, 0.9.8a, 0.9.8b, 0.9.8c, 0.9.8d, 0.9.8e (+53)

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory10.asc
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1052.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1053.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136470.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136473.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00036.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140853041709441&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140973896703549&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141077370928502&w=2

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