CVE-2009-4355

Memory leak in the zlib_stateful_finish function in crypto/comp/c_zlib.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8l and earlier and 1.0.0 Beta through Beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors that trigger incorrect calls to the CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data function, as demonstrated by use of SSLv3 and PHP with the Apache HTTP Server, a related issue to CVE-2008-1678.

Score
CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2010-01-14
Last modified
2024-08-07
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Affected products

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