GHSA-xcf7-rvmh-g6q4

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`openssl` `X509VerifyParamRef::set_host` buffer over-read

view advisory published 2023-06-21Licence: CC-BY-4.0

When this function was passed an empty string, `openssl` would attempt to call `strlen` on it, reading arbitrary memory until it reached a NUL byte.

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Related CVEs.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2023-53159USlow3.3—
The openssl crate before 0.10.55 for Rust allows an out-of-bounds read via an empty string to X509VerifyParamRef::set_host.
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