CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1568

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-11-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-11-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.6e uses assertions when detecting buffer overflow attacks instead of less severe mechanisms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain messages that cause OpenSSL to abort from a failed assertion, as demonstrated using SSLv2 CLIENT_MASTER_KEY messages, which are not properly handled in s2_srvr.c.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl 0.9.6e

References