Description
Multiple integer signedness errors in crypto/buffer/buffer.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8v allow remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact, via crafted DER data, as demonstrated by an X.509 certificate or an RSA public key. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2110.
Published: 2012-04-24
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 7.9% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2454-2 openssl incomplete fix
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-2131 Multiple integer signedness errors in crypto/buffer/buffer.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8v allow remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact, via crafted DER data, as demonstrated by an X.509 certificate or an RSA public key. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2110.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1428-1 OpenSSL vulnerability
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0534}

epss

{'score': 0.0668}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:26:08.465Z

Reserved: 2012-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-2131

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-04-24T20:55:02.970

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-2131

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2012-04-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-2131 - Bugzilla

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