RUSTSEC-2022-0025
Resource leakage when decoding certificates and keys
Details
The `OPENSSL_LH_flush()` function, which empties a hash table, contains a bug that breaks reuse of the memory occupied by the removed hash table entries.
This function is used when decoding certificates or keys. If a long lived process periodically decodes certificates or keys its memory usage will expand without bounds and the process might be terminated by the operating system causing a denial of service. Also traversing the empty hash table entries will take increasingly more time.
Typically such long lived processes might be TLS clients or TLS servers configured to accept client certificate authentication.
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Affected packages
300.0.0 Fixed in: 300.0.6 Upgrade openssl-src to 300.0.6 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).