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Bug 541502 (CVE-2015-0209)

Summary: dev-libs/openssl: fix a failure to NULL a pointer freed on error (CVE-2015-0209)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: base-system
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/1b4a8df38fc9ab3c089ca5765075ee53ec5bd66a
See Also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196737
Whiteboard: A3 [stable?]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2015-02-27 08:27:18 UTC
From ${URL} :

From openssl git:

commit 1b4a8df38fc9ab3c089ca5765075ee53ec5bd66a
Author: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 9 11:38:41 2015 +0000

    Fix a failure to NULL a pointer freed on error.

    Inspired by BoringSSL commit 517073cd4b by Eric Roman <eroman@chromium.org>

    CVE-2015-0209

    Reviewed-by: Emilia Käsper <emilia@openssl.org>

in elliptic curves code. might cause a double free, but its hard to say.


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 2 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-03-19 18:15:19 UTC
This issue was included in the handling for bug 543552

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 543552 ***