CVE-2003-0544

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CVE-2003-0544

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CVE-2003-0544 at MITRE

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 does not properly track the number of characters in certain ASN.1 inputs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SSL client certificate that causes OpenSSL to read past the end of a buffer when the long form is used.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 207635 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 46906 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SuSE-SA:2003:043, published Wednesday, Oct 1st 2003 16:12 MET

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:24:28 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:09:00 2023