CVE-2026-35189

Public on 2026-09-29
Modified on 2026-09-30
Description
Issue summary: A certificate with many nameRelativeToCRLIssuer CRL
distribution points causes disproportionate heap growth when OpenSSL caches
X.509 extensions.

Impact summary: Receiving a crafted certificate from a malicious peer can lead
to significant memory pressure and possible Denial of Service in clients or
in servers that solicit client certificates.

CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Description: A certificate or a set of certificates that fits under the limit for
size of certificates accepted from the peer (~100 KiB) can result in allocation
of several hundred MiB of resident memory on the receiving side
during a normal TLS handshake. This may be enough to crash the client or
server, if multiple concurrent connections lead to similarly large memory
allocations.

The fix postpones processing of the CRL distribution points extensions in
certificates to the time when the processed value is required for CRL processing.
This avoids keeping large memory allocations for a long time when such
certificates are received.

FIPS impact: no
The affected code is outside the FIPS module boundary.
Severity
Low severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core edk2 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 edk2 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 openssl Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2027 Preview openssl Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Openssl-snapsafe Extra openssl-snapsafe Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core openssl11 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ovmf Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core shim No Fix Planned

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L