National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0545
Orirignal release date: 2003-11-17
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    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.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 8 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input
    Impact Type: avail,sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    OpenSSL (OpenSSL Project)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0545