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TITLE:
OpenSSL ASN.1 MIME Header Parsing NULL Pointer Dereference
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48153

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-02-28

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenSSL, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) of the
application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
in the "mime_hdr_cmp()" function (crypto/asn1/asn_mime.c) when
parsing certain MIME headers and can be exploited to cause a crash.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.9.7i, 0.9.8t, and 1.0.0g.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Mats Nilsson to the openssl-dev mailing list.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Mats Nilsson:
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=115685408414194&w=2

OpenSSL:
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=22144

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