National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0851
Original release date:12/01/2003
Last revised:03/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
OpenSSL 0.9.6k allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash via large recursion) via malformed ASN.1 sequences.
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#412478
Name: VU#412478
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 8970
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20031104.txt
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20031104 [OpenSSL Advisory] Denial of Service in ASN.1 parsing
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CISCO
Name: 20030930 SSL Implementation Vulnerabilities
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:119
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5528
External Source: SGI
Name: 20040304-01-U
External Source: NETBSD
Name: NetBSD-SA2004-003
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2005-1042
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17381
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040508 [FLSA-2004:1395] Updated OpenSSL resolves security vulnerability
