CVE-2024-4741

Publication date 28 May 2024

Last updated 20 November 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Issue summary: Calling the OpenSSL API function SSL_free_buffers may cause memory to be accessed that was previously freed in some situations Impact summary: A use after free can have a range of potential consequences such as the corruption of valid data, crashes or execution of arbitrary code. However, only applications that directly call the SSL_free_buffers function are affected by this issue. Applications that do not call this function are not vulnerable. Our investigations indicate that this function is rarely used by applications. The SSL_free_buffers function is used to free the internal OpenSSL buffer used when processing an incoming record from the network. The call is only expected to succeed if the buffer is not currently in use. However, two scenarios have been identified where the buffer is freed even when still in use. The first scenario occurs where a record header has been received from the network and processed by OpenSSL, but the full record body has not yet arrived. In this case calling SSL_free_buffers will succeed even though a record has only been partially processed and the buffer is still in use. The second scenario occurs where a full record containing application data has been received and processed by OpenSSL but the application has only read part of this data. Again a call to SSL_free_buffers will succeed even though the buffer is still in use. While these scenarios could occur accidentally during normal operation a malicious attacker could attempt to engineer a stituation where this occurs. We are not aware of this issue being actively exploited. The FIPS modules in 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Upstream OpenSSL developers have rated this as being a low severity issue

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
edk2 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
nodejs 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
openssl 24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.2.2-1ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.2
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.17
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.23
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage
openssl1.0 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

1.0.2 is not affected, 1.1.1, and 3.x are affected

Patch details

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