CVE-2006-2937

Published Sep 28, 2006

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via malformed ASN.1 structures that trigger an improperly handled error condition.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-399

Social media

Hype score
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Vendor comments

  • Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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