CVE-2009-0591

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-03-25
Bugzilla:
492623: CVE-2009-0591 openssl: incorrect error checking during CMS verification

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The CMS_verify function in OpenSSL 0.9.8h through 0.9.8j, when CMS is enabled, does not properly handle errors associated with malformed signed attributes, which allows remote attackers to repudiate a signature that originally appeared to be valid but was actually invalid.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0591 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue affected OpenSSL CMS functionality which is not present in the openssl packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 or 5.

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