National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0545
Original release date:11/17/2003
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Double 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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (07/07/2008)
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Not 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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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#935264
Name: VU#935264
CERT/CC Advisory: CA-2003-26
Name: CA-2003-26
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2003:292
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 8732
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-3900
Type: Advisory
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-394
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22249
Type: Advisory
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2590
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2590
Type: Tool Signature