New OpenSSL 3.0 vulnerabilities: What you need to know to find and fix them

1 · · Nov. 1, 2022, midnight
The OpenSSL Project announced two vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL 3.0-3.0.6 (first released in September 2021). CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602 both relate to X.509 email address buffer overflows and require users to upgrade to OpenSSL 3.0.7, which includes patches for the vulnerabilities, which were downgraded from “critical” to “high.” OpenSSL is an open-source library used by applications to secure communications over the internet with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Secur...