CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0545

Double Free

Published: Nov 17, 2003 | Modified: Feb 02, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
10 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

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.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openssl Openssl 0.9.6 (including) 0.9.6 (including)
Openssl Openssl 0.9.7 (including) 0.9.7 (including)
Red Hat Linux 9 RedHat *
Openssl Ubuntu dapper *
Openssl Ubuntu devel *
Openssl Ubuntu edgy *
Openssl Ubuntu feisty *
Openssl097 Ubuntu dapper *
Openssl097 Ubuntu devel *
Openssl097 Ubuntu edgy *
Openssl097 Ubuntu feisty *

Potential Mitigations

References