CVE-2015-0288

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-0288  

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in OpenSSL's X.509 certificate handling implementation. A specially crafted X.509 certificate could cause an application using OpenSSL to crash if the application attempted to convert the certificate to a certificate request.

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in OpenSSL's X.509 certificate handling implementation. A specially crafted X.509 certificate could cause an application using OpenSSL to crash if the application attempted to convert the certificate to a certificate request.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0288 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Storage Server 2.1 (openssl) RHSA-2015:0752 2015-03-30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openssl) RHSA-2015:0715 2015-03-23
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 for RHEL 7 RHEA-2015:1770 2015-09-10
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 for RHEL 6 RHEA-2015:1771 2015-09-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (openssl) RHSA-2015:0800 2015-04-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openssl) RHSA-2015:0716 2015-03-23

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 openssl Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 openssl Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 openssl Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openssl098e Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl098e Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl097a Will not fix
RHEV Manager 3 mingw-virt-viewer Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Brian Carpenter as the original reporter.

External References