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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117027
Category:Denial of Service
Title:OpenSSL 0.9.6e DoS Vulnerability
Summary:OpenSSL is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
OpenSSL is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The use of assertions when detecting buffer overflow attacks allowed
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending certain messages to cause OpenSSL to
abort from a failed assertion, as demonstrated using SSLv2 CLIENT_MASTER_KEY messages, which were not
properly handled in s2_srvr.c.

Affected Software/OS:
OpenSSL version 0.9.6e.

Solution:
Update to version 0.9.6f or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2002-1568
Bugtraq: 20031002 New OpenSSL remote vulnerability (issue date 2003/10/02) (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106511018214983
http://www.ebitech.sk/patrik/SA/SA-20031002.txt
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