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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-0209: OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-0209: OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/19/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the d2i_ECPrivateKey function in crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed Elliptic Curve (EC) private-key file that is improperly handled during import.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-openssl

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