OpenSSL Security Advisory [19 Apr 2012] ======================================= ASN1 BIO vulnerability (CVE-2012-2110) ======================================= A potentially exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in the OpenSSL function asn1_d2i_read_bio. Any application which uses BIO or FILE based functions to read untrusted DER format data is vulnerable. Affected functions are of the form d2i_*_bio or d2i_*_fp, for example d2i_X509_bio or d2i_PKCS12_fp. Applications using the memory based ASN1 functions (d2i_X509, d2i_PKCS12 etc) are not affected. In particular the SSL/TLS code of OpenSSL is *not* affected. Applications only using the PEM routines are not affected. S/MIME or CMS applications using the built in MIME parser SMIME_read_PKCS7 or SMIME_read_CMS *are* affected. The OpenSSL command line utility is also affected if used to process untrusted data in DER format. Note: although an application using the SSL/TLS portions of OpenSSL is not automatically affected it might still call a function such as d2i_X509_bio on untrusted data and be vulnerable. Thanks to Tavis Ormandy, Google Security Team, for discovering this issue and to Adam Langley for fixing it. Affected users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1a, 1.0.0i or 0.9.8v. References ========== URL for this Security Advisory: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120419.txt