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Commit 1d2a18dc authored by Matt Caswell's avatar Matt Caswell
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Multiblock corrupted pointer fix



OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the "multiblock" performance improvement. This
feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES
NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of "multiblock" can cause
OpenSSL's internal write buffer to become incorrectly set to NULL when
using non-blocking IO. Typically, when the user application is using a
socket BIO for writing, this will only result in a failed connection.
However if some other BIO is used then it is likely that a segmentation
fault will be triggered, thus enabling a potential DoS attack.

CVE-2015-0290

Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>
parent 7ead0c89
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