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OpenSSL: Double Free Vulnerability (CVE-2003-0545) (Linux)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Certain ASN.1 encodings that were rejected as invalid by the parser could trigger a bug in the deallocation of the corresponding data structure, corrupting the stack, leading to a crash.

Affected Software

Affected Software

OpenSSL version 0.9.7 through 0.9.7b.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update OpenSSL to version 0.9.7c or later. See the references for more details.

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