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CVE-2008-0891

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-05-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g, when the TLS server name extensions are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed Client Hello packet. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected Platforms

Openssl Openssl

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References