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Double Free

CVE-2003-0545

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL through 0.9.6j and 0.9.7x through 0.9.7b 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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-415 - Double Free

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published