Double Free in mbedtls_ssl_set_session() in an error case.
Title |
Double Free in |
|---|---|
CVE |
CVE-2021-44732 |
Date |
14th of December, 2021 |
Affects |
All versions of Mbed TLS |
Impact |
An attacker could create memory / heap corruption. |
Severity |
High |
Credit |
duckPowerMB |
Vulnerability
If mbedtls_ssl_set_session() or mbedtls_ssl_get_session() were to fail with MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ALLOC_FAILED (in an out of memory condition), then calling mbedtls_ssl_session_free() and mbedtls_ssl_free() in the usual manner would cause an internal session buffer to be freed twice, due to two structures both having valid pointers to it after a call to ssl_session_copy().
Impact
An attacker could potentially trigger the out of memory condition, and therefore use this bug to create memory corruption, which could then be further exploited or targetted.
Resolution
Affected users will want to upgrade to Mbed TLS 3.1.0, 2.28.0 or 2.16.12 depending on the branch they’re currently using.
Work-around
Either do not call mbedtls_ssl_session_free() (which will unfortunately cause a memory leak) or set the mbedtls_ssl_session field ticket to NULL manually, in the case where either mbedtls_ssl_set_session() or mbedtls_ssl_get_session() returns MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_ALLOC_FAILED.