An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. 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.
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Information
Published : 2018-11-16 10:29
Updated : 2019-10-02 17:03
NVD link : CVE-2018-16395
Mitre link : CVE-2018-16395
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CWE
Products Affected
ruby-lang
- ruby
- openssl
redhat
- enterprise_linux
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
debian
- debian_linux