openssl — security advisory
The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) implementation in crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8o and 1.x before 1.0.0a does not properly handle structures that contain OriginatorInfo, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify invalid memory locations or conduct double-free attacks, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via unspecified vectors.
- Products
- openssl
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.0e-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-0742
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) implementation in crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8o and 1.x before 1.0.0a does not properly handle structures that contain OriginatorInfo, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify invalid memory locations or conduct double-free attacks, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via unspecified vectors.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-0742
openssl
Fixed versions: 1.0.0e-1
openssl
Fixed versions: 1.0.0e-1
openssl
Fixed versions: 1.0.0e-1
Complete source record
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