National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-0659
Original release date:08/12/2002
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The ASN1 library in OpenSSL 0.9.6d and earlier, and 0.9.7-beta2 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via invalid encodings.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#748355
Name: VU#748355
CERT/CC Advisory: CA-2002-23
Name: CA-2002-23
External Source: BID
Name: 5366
External Source: XF
Name: openssl-asn1-parser-dos(9718)
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2002:164
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2002:161
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2002:160
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLA-2002:516
External Source: FREEBSD
Name: FreeBSD-SA-02:33
External Source: CALDERA
Name: CSSA-2002-033.1
External Source: CALDERA
Name: CSSA-2002-033.0
