CVE-2023-0466

NameCVE-2023-0466
DescriptionThe function X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() is documented to implicitly enable the certificate policy check when doing certificate verification. However the implementation of the function does not enable the check which allows certificates with invalid or incorrect policies to pass the certificate verification. As suddenly enabling the policy check could break existing deployments it was decided to keep the existing behavior of the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() function. Instead the applications that require OpenSSL to perform certificate policy check need to use X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() or explicitly enable the policy check by calling X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags() with the X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK flag argument. Certificate policy checks are disabled by default in OpenSSL and are not commonly used by applications.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3449-1, DSA-5417-1, ELA-932-1, ELA-953-1
Debian Bugs1034720

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openssl (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.0.1t-1+deb8u22fixed
stretch (security)1.1.0l-1~deb9u6vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch1.1.0l-1~deb9u10fixed
buster, buster (lts)1.1.1n-0+deb10u7fixed
buster (security)1.1.1n-0+deb10u6fixed
bullseye1.1.1w-0+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1.1.1w-0+deb11u2fixed
bookworm3.0.15-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)3.0.14-1~deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie3.3.2-2fixed
openssl1.0 (PTS)stretch (security)1.0.2u-1~deb9u7vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch1.0.2u-1~deb9u10fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
opensslsourcejessie1.0.1t-1+deb8u21ELA-953-1
opensslsourcestretch1.1.0l-1~deb9u9ELA-953-1
opensslsourcebuster1.1.1n-0+deb10u5DLA-3449-1
opensslsourcebullseye1.1.1n-0+deb11u5DSA-5417-1
opensslsource(unstable)3.0.9-11034720
openssl1.0sourcestretch1.0.2u-1~deb9u8ELA-932-1
openssl1.0source(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230328.txt
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=51e8a84ce742db0f6c70510d0159dad8f7825908 (openssl-3.0)
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=0d16b7e99aafc0b4a6d729eec65a411a7e025f0a (OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable)

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