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CVE-2009-0789

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-03-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Openssl Openssl

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References