Description
OpenSSL before 0.9.8k on WIN64 and certain other platforms does not properly handle a malformed ASN.1 structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) by placing this structure in the public key of a certificate, as demonstrated by an RSA public key.
Published: 2009-03-27
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 2.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0787 OpenSSL before 0.9.8k on WIN64 and certain other platforms does not properly handle a malformed ASN.1 structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) by placing this structure in the public key of a certificate, as demonstrated by an RSA public key.
References
Link Providers
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-008.txt.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00013.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00014.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124464882609472&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127678688104458&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34411 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34460 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34666 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35065 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35380 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35729 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36701 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42724 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42733 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021906 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=671059&group_id=116847 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865 cve-icon cve-icon
http://voodoo-circle.sourceforge.net/sa/sa-20090326-01.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/52866 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-04-08-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34256 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0850 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1020 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1175 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1548 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49433 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50 cve-icon cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:48:52.220Z

Reserved: 2009-03-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0789

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-03-27T16:30:02.140

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-0789

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