CVE-2009-0789

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0789 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue only affects a small number of operating systems and does not affect the openssl packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 or 5.

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