The vulnerability of the OpenSSL library lies in the possibility of reading an incorrect address in memory during the comparison of the subject name “otherName” with a X.509 certificate. This allows an attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the OpenSSL library is related to the reading of an incorrect address in memory during the comparison of the subject name “otherName” with the X.509 certificate’s name. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failures remotely...