National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1730
Original release date:12/31/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL ASN.1 parser, as used in Novell iManager 2.0.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by "OpenSSL ASN.1 brute forcer." NOTE: this issue might overlap CVE-2004-0079, CVE-2004-0081, or CVE-2004-0112.
Description
This vulnerability is addressed in the following product update:
http://www.novell.com/products/consoles/
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/02/2007)
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Based on our research we believe that the "OpenSSL ASN.1 brute forcer." is actually exploiting flaws CVE-2003-0543, CVE-2003-0544, CVE-2003-0545. Those issues are all addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and therefore CVE-2005-1730 is a duplicate assignment.
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/ASN.1-Brute.c
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-0744
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.cirt.dk/advisories/cirt-32-advisory.pdf
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 8732