CVE-2003-0545

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-415

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22249Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112Broken Link
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394Broken Link
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htmBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900Broken Link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/22249Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112Broken Link
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.htmlThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394Broken Link
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htmBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900Broken Link
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590Broken Link

Timeline

Published: Nov 17, 2003
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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