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CVE-2009-0789 Detail

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.


Severity



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Base Score:  N/A
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/30/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue only affects a small number of operating systems and does not affect the openssl packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 or 5.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-008.txt.asc
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00014.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124464882609472&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127678688104458&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021906
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=671059&group_id=116847
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865
http://voodoo-circle.sourceforge.net/sa/sa-20090326-01.html
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt Vendor Advisory 
http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-04-08-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34256 Patch 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0850 Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1020 Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1175 Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1548 Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49433
https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-0789
NVD Published Date:
03/27/2009
NVD Last Modified:
08/16/2017
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.