CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0789

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-03-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-03-27
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
Weaknesses
CWE-189

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.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl (<= 0.9.8j) • openssl openssl 0.9.1c • openssl openssl 0.9.2b • openssl openssl 0.9.3 • openssl openssl 0.9.3a • openssl openssl 0.9.4 • openssl openssl 0.9.5 • openssl openssl 0.9.5a • openssl openssl 0.9.6 • openssl openssl 0.9.6a • openssl openssl 0.9.6b • openssl openssl 0.9.6c • openssl openssl 0.9.6d • openssl openssl 0.9.6e • openssl openssl 0.9.6f • openssl openssl 0.9.6g • openssl openssl 0.9.6h • openssl openssl 0.9.6i • openssl openssl 0.9.6j • openssl openssl 0.9.6k • openssl openssl 0.9.6l • openssl openssl 0.9.6m • openssl openssl 0.9.7 • openssl openssl 0.9.7a • openssl openssl 0.9.7b • openssl openssl 0.9.7c • openssl openssl 0.9.7d • openssl openssl 0.9.7e • openssl openssl 0.9.7f • openssl openssl 0.9.7g • openssl openssl 0.9.7h • openssl openssl 0.9.7i • openssl openssl 0.9.7j • openssl openssl 0.9.7k • openssl openssl 0.9.7l • openssl openssl 0.9.7m • openssl openssl 0.9.8 • openssl openssl 0.9.8a • openssl openssl 0.9.8b • openssl openssl 0.9.8c • openssl openssl 0.9.8d • openssl openssl 0.9.8e • openssl openssl 0.9.8f • openssl openssl 0.9.8g • openssl openssl 0.9.8h • openssl openssl 0.9.8i

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

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