Denial of Service (DoS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENSSL-10078021
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed12 Aug 2002
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Aug 2002

CVE-2002-0659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). 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.