CVE-2002-0659 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2002-0659?

CVE-2002-0659 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 31 Jul 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ASN1 library in OpenSSL 0.9.6d and earlier, and 0.9.7-beta2 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via invalid encodings.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0659?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Openssl Openssl, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Corporate Time Outlook Connector, Oracle Http Server.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0659?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2002-0659 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-0659 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2002-0659, GHSA-3x2f-268g-8hg7.