CVE-2003-0544 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2003-0544
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Description: OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 does not properly track the number of characters in certain ASN.1 inputs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SSL client certificate that causes OpenSSL to read past the end of a buffer when the long form is used.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43041 VULNWATCH SAID Secunia Advisory: SA22249 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-291.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4574 MISC http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm FULLDISC ENGARDE http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-3693.html DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-393 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394 CONFIRM http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104893 CERT-VN 380864 CERT http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html BID 8732

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