The decrypt_public function in lib/crypt.cpp in the...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 2, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 15, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 2, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
The decrypt_public function in lib/crypt.cpp in the client in Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) 6.2.14 and 6.4.5 does not check the return value from the OpenSSL RSA_public_decrypt function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.
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