CVE-2003-0545

CRITICAL

OpenSSL <0.9.7 - Use After Free

Title source: llm

Description

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL client certificate with a certain invalid ASN.1 encoding.

References (10)

[Broken Link, Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/22249

[Broken Link] http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112

[Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource] http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html

[Broken Link] http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394

[Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264

[Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732

[Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm

[Broken Link] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900

[Broken Link] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.7457

EPSS Percentile 98.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-415

Status draft

Affected Products (2)

openssl/openssl

Timeline

Published Nov 17, 2003

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026