CVE-2003-0545

Summary

CVECVE-2003-0545
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-11-17 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionDouble free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL client certificate with a certain invalid ASN.1 encoding.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-415 | n/a


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary9.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openssl Openssl 0.9.6 All All All
Application Openssl Openssl 0.9.7 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#935264 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Broken Link
OpenSSL ASN.1 Parsing Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
IBM Vulnerability Detected: 170.23.146.40:443 - OpenSSL Overflow Via Invalid Certificate Passing - United States af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www-1.ibm.com Broken Link
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-394-1 openssl095 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Broken Link
IBM Rational RequisitePro OpenSSL Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.uniras.gov.uk Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
CERT Advisory CA-2003-26 Multiple Vulnerabilities in SSL/TLS Implementations af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-07-07Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. The OpenSSL packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 were not affected by this issue. The OpenSSL packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 contain a backported patch since their initial release (openssl), or were not affected by this issue (openssl096b). The OpenSSL packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are based on fixed upstream release (openssl), or contain backported patch since their initial release (openssl097a).

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