CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0545

9.8 CRITICAL 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 3.1 ([email protected]): 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses: CWE-415

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl 0.9.6 • openssl openssl 0.9.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-415 Double Free weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

CWE-415 Double Free weakness

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22249 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112 Broken Link
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394 Broken Link
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900 Broken Link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/22249 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112 Broken Link
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394 Broken Link
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900 Broken Link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590 Broken Link