Read the original article: OpenSSL Flaw Would Allow Attackers to Cause a denial-of-service Condition
OpenSSL has released a Security Advisory [on 8th of December 2020] regarding the vulnerability CVE-2020-1971 which is called EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference. What is the vulnerability? X.509 digital certificate’s GeneralName type is a generic type for representing different types of names. One of those name types is known as EDIPartyName. OpenSSL’s function GENERAL_NAME_cmp compares different […]
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