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08 Jun 2009
Sun Alert 258048 A Security Vulnerability in the ASN.1 Handling in Solaris OpenSSL May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition
Product: Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris A security vulnerability in the ASN.1 handling in the OpenSSL product (see openssl(5)) shipped with Solaris may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to applications calling the "ASN1_STRING_print_ex()" printing function. Additional information regarding this issue can be found in the following document: CVE-2009-0590 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0590 State: Resolved First released: 29-Apr-2009
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Hi Chandan Bellur Nandakumaraiah,
May I know if there any Solaris OS utility will call the "ASN1_STRING_print_ex()" printing function. Also, is there anyway to check if the running application will call this function?
Thanks & Regards
Paul
Posted by Paul Liong on May 04, 2009 at 12:42 AM PDT #