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OpenSSL: Denial of Service in ASN.1 parsing (CVE-2003-0851) (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
OpenSSL is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
A flaw in OpenSSL would cause certain ASN.1 sequences to trigger a large recursion. On platforms such as Windows this large recursion cannot be handled correctly and so the bug causes OpenSSL to crash.
Affected Software
Affected Software
OpenSSL 0.9.6k.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update OpenSSL to version 0.9.6l or later. See the references for more details.