What they've found is that there's a companion memory leak (CVE-2015-5333) and buffer overflow (CVE-2015-5334) in the SSL replacement candidate.
The researchers from Qualys (their notice published here) said they were trying to see if a remote code execution attack is feasible against vulnerabilities they've turned up in OpenSMTPD (which earlier this month hit version 5.7.3).
“Because we could not find one in OpenSMTPD itself, we started to review the malloc()s and free()s of its libraries, and eventually found a memory leak in LibreSSL's OBJ_obj2txt() function; we then realized that this function also contains a buffer overflow (an off-by-one, usually stack-based).”
The memory leak provides a path for an attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack, and also permits triggering of the buffer overflow.
The LibreSSL team has released fixes for OpenBSD.
(Score: 4, Informative) by TheRaven on Tuesday October 20 2015, @08:40AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @06:38PM
If you use libtls instead of libssl from LibreSSL you ditch the openssl API.