CVE-2015-0289 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0289?

CVE-2015-0289 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openssl Openssl, published on 19 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0289?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openssl Openssl.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0289?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-0289 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0289, GHSA-cxc6-qvvg-mcqm, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0289.