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Note that this occurs<br>after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a<br>CA to have signed the malicious certificate or for the application to<br>continue certificate verification despite failure to construct a path<br>to a trusted issuer.<br><br>The read buffer overrun might result in a crash which could lead to<br>a denial of service attack. In theory it could also result in the disclosure<br>of private memory contents (such as private keys, or sensitive plaintext)<br>although we are not aware of any working exploit leading to memory<br>contents disclosure as of the time of release of this advisory.<br><br>In a TLS client, this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious<br>server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server requests<br>client authentication and a malicious client connects.<br><br>"}],"value":"A read buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification,\nspecifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs\nafter certificate chain signature verification and requires either a\nCA to have signed the malicious certificate or for the application to\ncontinue certificate verification despite failure to construct a path\nto a trusted issuer.\n\nThe read buffer overrun might result in a crash which could lead to\na denial of service attack. In theory it could also result in the disclosure\nof private memory contents (such as private keys, or sensitive plaintext)\nalthough we are not aware of any working exploit leading to memory\ncontents disclosure as of the time of release of this advisory.\n\nIn a TLS client, this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious\nserver. 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