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CVE-2009-4355

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2010-01-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in the zlib_stateful_finish function in crypto/comp/c_zlib.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8l and earlier and 1.0.0 Beta through Beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors that trigger incorrect calls to the CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data function, as demonstrated by use of SSLv3 and PHP with the Apache HTTP Server, a related issue to CVE-2008-1678.

Affected Platforms

Redhat OpensslOpenssl Openssl

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References