CVE-2003-0545

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.

• CWE-415

• 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

Published

Nov 17, 2003

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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