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@@ -11,6 +11,23 @@ https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt [Richard Levitte] + Changes between 1.1.0a and 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016] + + *) Fix Use After Free for large message sizes + + The patch applied to address CVE-2016-6307 resulted in an issue where if a + message larger than approx 16k is received then the underlying buffer to + store the incoming message is reallocated and moved. Unfortunately a + dangling pointer to the old location is left which results in an attempt to + write to the previously freed location. This is likely to result in a + crash, however it could potentially lead to execution of arbitrary code. + + This issue only affects OpenSSL 1.1.0a. + + This issue was reported to OpenSSL by Robert Święcki. + (CVE-2016-6309) + [Matt Caswell] + Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016] *) OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ o + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016] + + o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309) + Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016] o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304) |