CVE-2015-0289

openssl: PKCS7 NULL pointer dereference

Published Mar 19, 2015 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 8.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
The PKCS#7 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a does not properly handle a lack of outer ContentInfo, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by leveraging an application that processes arbitrary PKCS#7 data and providing malformed data with ASN.1 encoding, related to crypto/pkcs7/pk7_doit.c and crypto/pkcs7/pk7_lib.c.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-177-1 openssl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3197-1 openssl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3197-2 openssl regression update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-0302 The PKCS#7 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a does not properly handle a lack of outer ContentInfo, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by leveraging an application that processes arbitrary PKCS#7 data and providing malformed data with ASN.1 encoding, related to crypto/pkcs7/pk7_doit.c and crypto/pkcs7/pk7_lib.c.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2537-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10680 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152733.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152734.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152844.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/156823.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157177.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00022.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00037.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00062.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142841429220765&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143213830203296&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050297101809&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0715.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0716.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0752.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0800.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204942 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3197 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/2015-03-24-openssl-vulnerabilities-march-2015 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:062 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:063 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73231 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031929 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2537-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1384453 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa92 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202384 cve-icon cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c0334c2c92dd1bc3ad8138ba6e74006c3631b0f9 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10110 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0289 cve-icon
https://openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-11 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0289 cve-icon
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15%3A06.openssl.asc cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 4:03 AM
Reserved
Nov 18, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 19, 2015, 10:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:19 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Mar 19, 2015, 12:00 AM