CVE-2015-5333

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Memory leak in the OBJ_obj2txt function in LibreSSL before 2.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of ASN.1 object identifiers in X.509 certificates.

Affected products

OpenBSD Libressl: before 2.3.1 — fixed in 2.3.1
Opensuse: 13.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenBSD Libressl 2.3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-2.3.1-relnotes.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00050.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133998/Qualys-Security-Advisory-LibreSSL-Leak-Overflow.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/536692/100/0/threaded
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-2.3.1-relnotes.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00050.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133998/Qualys-Security-Advisory-LibreSSL-Leak-Overflow.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/536692/100/0/threaded

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