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CVE-2023-1255

MEDIUM
5.9CVSS
Published: 2023-04-20
Updated: 2025-02-04
AI Analysis

Description

Issue summary: The AES-XTS cipher decryption implementation for 64 bit ARM platform contains a bug that could cause it to read past the input buffer, leading to a crash. Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-XTS algorithm on the 64 bit ARM platform can crash in rare circumstances. The AES-XTS algorithm is usually used for disk encryption. The AES-XTS cipher decryption implementation for 64 bit ARM platform will read past the end of the ciphertext buffer if the ciphertext size is 4 mod 5 in 16 byte blocks, e.g. 144 bytes or 1024 bytes. If the memory after the ciphertext buffer is unmapped, this will trigger a crash which results in a denial of service. If an attacker can control the size and location of the ciphertext buffer being decrypted by an application using AES-XTS on 64 bit ARM, the application is affected. This is fairly unlikely making this issue a Low severity one.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
high
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-125CWE-125

Metadata

Primary Vendor
OPENSSL
Published
4/20/2023
Last Modified
2/4/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

openssl : opensslopenssl : openssl

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