commit 2fc14c59ca0eb275dfb9308e9d1d89a1dcbc2a24 Author: Matt Caswell Date: Tue Dec 13 14:54:55 2022 +0000 Avoid dangling ptrs in header and data params for PEM_read_bio_ex In the event of a failure in PEM_read_bio_ex() we free the buffers we allocated for the header and data buffers. However we were not clearing the ptrs stored in *header and *data. Since, on success, the caller is responsible for freeing these ptrs this can potentially lead to a double free if the caller frees them even on failure. Thanks to Dawei Wang for reporting this issue. Based on a proposed patch by Kurt Roeckx. CVE-2022-4450 Index: openssl-1.1.1l/crypto/pem/pem_lib.c =================================================================== --- openssl-1.1.1l.orig/crypto/pem/pem_lib.c +++ openssl-1.1.1l/crypto/pem/pem_lib.c @@ -954,7 +954,9 @@ int PEM_read_bio_ex(BIO *bp, char **name *data = pem_malloc(len, flags); if (*header == NULL || *data == NULL) { pem_free(*header, flags, 0); + *header = NULL; pem_free(*data, flags, 0); + *data = NULL; goto end; } BIO_read(headerB, *header, headerlen);