CVE-2003-0545

critical

Description

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an SSL client certificate with a certain invalid ASN.1 encoding.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935264

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-26.html

https://github.com/SafraNako/cve-feed-watcher

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2590

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2003-0539

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3900

http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2003/006489/openssl.htm

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8732

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-292.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-394

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247112

http://secunia.com/advisories/22249

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2003-11-17

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H