78187 : OpenSSL X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK Double-free Unspecified Weakness
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2012-01-05

Description

OpenSSL contains an unspecified flaw that is due to a double-free error that occurs when the program fails to properly check policies. No further details have been provided.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Impact Unknown
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.9.8s or higher or 1.0.0f or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

The OpenSSL Project	OpenSSL	0.9.8a
		0.9.8b
		0.9.8c
		0.9.8d
		0.9.8e
		0.9.8f
		0.9.8g
		0.9.8h
		0.9.8i
		0.9.8j
		0.9.8n
		0.9.8o
		0.9.8p
		0.9.8q
		0.9.8r
		0.9.8k
		0.9.8l
		0.9.8m

References

Security Tracker: 1026485
CVE ID: 2011-4109 (see also: NVD)
SCIP VulDB ID: 4515
Secunia Advisory ID: 47426 47528 47607 47673 47752 47925 48238 48528 49077 49670 50476 50736 51674 52694
Bugtraq ID: 51281
ISS X-Force ID: 72129
CERT VU: 737740
Related OSVDB ID: 78186 78188 78189 78190 78191
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory3.asc
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03383940
http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt
http://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.jsp?actionBtn=Search&txtAlertNumber=PSN-2012-09-712&viewMode=view
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0013.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=676
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03141193
http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?docId=emr_na-c03383940
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00018.html
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:01.openssl.asc
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2390
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-12.xml
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1357-1/
Vendor URL: http://openssl.org/
Mail List Post: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Jan/151
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/May/13
Other Advisory URL: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:006
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:007
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2012:0060 RHSA-2012:1306 RHSA-2012:1307 RHSA-2012:1308

Credit

Ben Laurie

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2012-01-06 | Disagree?

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