National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2131

Overview

Multiple integer signedness errors in crypto/buffer/buffer.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8v allow remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact, via crafted DER data, as demonstrated by an X.509 certificate or an RSA public key. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2110.

Impact

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External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1428-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1428-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1026957

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026957

External Source: BID

Name: 53212

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53212

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120424 Re: OpenSSL ASN1 BIO vulnerability (CVE-2012-2110)

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/24/1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120424.txt

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120424.txt

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2454

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2454

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48956

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48956

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48895

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48895

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBOV02793

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134039053214295&w=2

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT100891

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134039053214295&w=2

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1149

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00007.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=22479

Hyperlink:http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=22479