Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenSSL with RFC 3779 Support

CVE-2011-4577 · MEDIUM Severity

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

OpenSSL before 0.9.8s and 1.x before 1.0.0f, when RFC 3779 support is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via an X.509 certificate containing certificate-extension data associated with (1) IP address blocks or (2) Autonomous System (AS) identifiers.

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