CVE-2009-0789

CVE-2009-0789 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

OpenSSL before 0.9.8k on WIN64 and certain other platforms does not properly handle a malformed ASN.1 structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) by placing this structure in the public key of a certificate, as demonstrated by an RSA public key.

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