ALAS2-2019-1143 --- rubyID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1700132 | Date: (C)2019-03-29 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby. When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return true. When the first argument is one character longer than the second, or the second argument contains a character that is one less than a character in the same position of the first argument, the result of == will be true. This could be leveraged to create an illegitimate certificate that may be accepted as legitimate and then used in signing or encryption operations.