Heap-based Buffer Over-read in ASN.1 Certificate Data Parsing in wolfSSL through 4.1.0

Heap-based Buffer Over-read in ASN.1 Certificate Data Parsing in wolfSSL through 4.1.0

CVE-2019-16748 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

In wolfSSL through 4.1.0, there is a missing sanity check of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer over-read in CheckCertSignature_ex in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c.

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