{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "openssl-security@openssl.org", "DATE_PUBLIC" : "2016-11-10", "ID" : "CVE-2016-7053", "STATE" : "PUBLIC", "TITLE" : "CMS Null dereference" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "OpenSSL", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_value" : "openssl-1.1.0" }, { "version_value" : "openssl-1.1.0a" }, { "version_value" : "openssl-1.1.0b" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "OpenSSL" } ] } }, "credit" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "Tyler Nighswander (ForAllSecure)" } ], "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "In OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0c, applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings. Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are affected." } ] }, "impact" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "url" : "https://www.openssl.org/policies/secpolicy.html#Moderate", "value" : "Moderate" } ], "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "NULL pointer deference" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "url" : "https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20161110.txt" }, { "url" : "https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03744en_us" }, { "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94244" }, { "url" : "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037261" } ] } }