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OpenSSL: Double Free Vulnerability (CVE-2003-0545) (Windows)
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.