VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2003-0544

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability6.92%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2003-11-17
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 does not properly track the number of characters in certain ASN.1 inputs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SSL client certificate that causes OpenSSL to read past the end of a buffer when the long form is used.

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