CVE-2008-0891

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g, when the TLS server name extensions are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed Client Hello packet. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 0.9.8f, 0.9.8g

References

http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30405
http://secunia.com/advisories/30460
http://secunia.com/advisories/30825
http://secunia.com/advisories/30852
http://secunia.com/advisories/30868
http://secunia.com/advisories/31228
http://secunia.com/advisories/31288
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606
http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400

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