National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0742
Original release date:06/03/2010
Last revised:07/19/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) implementation in crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8o and 1.x before 1.0.0a does not properly handle structures that contain OriginatorInfo, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify invalid memory locations or conduct double-free attacks, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via unspecified vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1313
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [syslog-ng-announce] 20110110 syslog-ng Premium Edition 3.2.1a has been released
External Source: MLIST
Name: [syslog-ng-announce] 20110110 syslog-ng Premium Edition 3.0.6a has been released
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598738
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-3105
External Source: BID
Name: 40502
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20100601.txt
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42733
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42724
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 42457
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40024
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 40000
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2211&user=guest&pass=guest
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12395
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02610
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBUX02610
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.openssl.org/filediff?f=openssl/crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c&v1=1.8&v2=1.8.6.1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19693
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12395
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5