CVE-2009-0591

OpenSSL <0.9.8j - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

Description

The CMS_verify function in OpenSSL 0.9.8h through 0.9.8j, when CMS is enabled, does not properly handle errors associated with malformed signed attributes, which allows remote attackers to repudiate a signature that originally appeared to be valid but was actually invalid.

References (28)

[Mailing List] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html

[Mailing List] http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124464882609472&w=2

[Mailing List] http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127678688104458&w=2

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/34411

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/34460

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/34666

[Product] http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=671059&group_id=116847

[Vendor Advisory] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865

[Vendor Advisory] http://voodoo-circle.sourceforge.net/sa/sa-20090326-01.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.osvdb.org/52865

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.php.net/archive/2009.php#id2009-04-08-1

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34256

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0850

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49432

[Various Sources] https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50

[Vendor Advisory] ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-008.txt.asc

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://securitytracker.com/id?1021907

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/35065

... and 8 more

Scores

EPSS 0.0242

EPSS Percentile 84.9%

Classification

CWE

CWE-287

Status draft

Affected Products (3)

openssl/openssl

openssl/openssl

openssl/openssl

Timeline

Published Mar 27, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026