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openssl — security advisory
OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 does not properly track the number of characters in certain ASN.1 inputs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SSL client certificate that causes OpenSSL to read past the end of a buffer when the long form is used.
- Products
- openssl
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.9.7c
- CVEs
- CVE-2003-0544
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 does not properly track the number of characters in certain ASN.1 inputs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SSL client certificate that causes OpenSSL to read past the end of a buffer when the long form is used.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0544
openssl
Fixed versions: 0.9.7c
openssl
Fixed versions: 0.9.7c
openssl
Fixed versions: 0.9.7c
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:25.739578760Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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