cvelist/2016/7xxx/CVE-2016-7053.json

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        "ASSIGNER": "openssl-security@openssl.org",
        "DATE_PUBLIC": "2016-11-10",
        "ID": "CVE-2016-7053",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC",
        "TITLE": "CMS Null dereference"
    },
    "affects": {
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                            {
                                "product_name": "OpenSSL",
                                "version": {
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                                            "version_value": "openssl-1.1.0"
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                                        {
                                            "version_value": "openssl-1.1.0a"
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                                        {
                                            "version_value": "openssl-1.1.0b"
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                    "vendor_name": "OpenSSL"
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    },
    "credit": [
        {
            "lang": "eng",
            "value": "Tyler Nighswander (ForAllSecure)"
        }
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    "data_type": "CVE",
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    "description": {
        "description_data": [
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                "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."
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    "impact": [
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            "url": "https://www.openssl.org/policies/secpolicy.html#Moderate",
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        }
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                "description": [
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                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "NULL pointer deference"
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                "refsource": "CONFIRM",
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            {
                "name": "94244",
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                "name": "https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20161110.txt",
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                "url": "https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20161110.txt"
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            {
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