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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-0208 Detail

Description

The ASN.1 signature-verification implementation in the rsa_item_verify function in crypto/rsa/rsa_ameth.c in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted RSA PSS parameters to an endpoint that uses the certificate-verification feature.


Evaluator Description

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050297101809&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73230 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031929 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa92 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202369 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4b22cce3812052fe64fc3f6d58d8cc884e3cb834 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10110 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-11 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-0208
NVD Published Date:
03/19/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.