CVE-2002-1568

published 2003-11-17

CVE-2002-1568: 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…

Priority P4 16 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	openssl	< openssl 0.9.6g-1 (bookworm)	openssl 0.9.6g-1 (bookworm)
openssl	openssl	—	—
openssl	openssl	>= 0 < 0.9.6g-1	0.9.6g-1
openssl	openssl	>= 0 < 0.9.6g-1	0.9.6g-1
openssl	openssl	>= 0 < 0.9.6g-1	0.9.6g-1
openssl	openssl	>= 0 < 0.9.6g-1	0.9.6g-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 5.0 MEDIUM

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