CVE-2009-4355

EPSS 20.2%

openssl - denial of service

Published: 1/14/2010Modified: 3/9/2026
Also known as:DSA-1970-1DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4355

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)