CVE-2025-68160

Description

Issue summary: Writing large, newline-free data into a BIO chain using theline-buffering filter where the next BIO performs short writes can triggera heap-based out-of-bounds write.Impact summary: This out-of-bounds write can cause memory corruption whichtypically results in a crash, leading to Denial of Service for an application.The line-buffering BIO filter (BIO_f_linebuffer) is not used by default inTLS/SSL data paths. In OpenSSL command-line applications, it is typicallyonly pushed onto stdout/stderr on VMS systems. Third-party applications thatexplicitly use this filter with a BIO chain that can short-write and thatwrite large, newline-free data influenced by an attacker would be affected.However, the circumstances where this could happen are unlikely to be underattacker control, and BIO_f_linebuffer is unlikely to be handling non-curateddata controlled by an attacker. For that reason the issue was assessed asLow severity.The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue,as the BIO implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234