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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2022-4450",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4450",
    "idYear": 2022,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2023-02-08T19:04:04.874Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T14:39:44.108Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z",
    "snapshot": {
      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
    },
    "facts": {
      "title": "Double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex",
      "summary": "The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and\ndecodes the \"name\" (e.g. \"CERTIFICATE\"), any header data and the payload data.\nIf the function succeeds then the \"name_out\", \"header\" and \"data\" arguments are\npopulated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data. The\ncaller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a\nPEM file that results in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex()\nwill return a failure code but will populate the header argument with a pointer\nto a buffer that has already been freed. If the caller also frees this buffer\nthen a double free will occur. This will most likely lead to a crash. This\ncould be exploited by an attacker who has the ability to supply malicious PEM\nfiles for parsing to achieve a denial of service attack.\n\nThe functions PEM_read_bio() and PEM_read() are simple wrappers around\nPEM_read_bio_ex() and therefore these functions are also directly affected.\n\nThese functions are also called indirectly by a number of other OpenSSL\nfunctions including PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio_ex() and\nSSL_CTX_use_serverinfo_file() which are also vulnerable. Some OpenSSL internal\nuses of these functions are not vulnerable because the caller does not free the\nheader argument if PEM_read_bio_ex() returns a failure code. These locations\ninclude the PEM_read_bio_TYPE() functions as well as the decoders introduced in\nOpenSSL 3.0.\n\nThe OpenSSL asn1parse command line application is also impacted by this issue.",
      "affected": [
        {
          "vendor": "OpenSSL",
          "product": "OpenSSL",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "3.0.0",
              "status": "affected",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "lessThan": "3.0.8"
            },
            {
              "version": "1.1.1",
              "status": "affected",
              "versionType": "custom",
              "lessThan": "1.1.1t"
            }
          ]
        }
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