CVE-2012-0027

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The GOST ENGINE in OpenSSL before 1.0.0f does not properly handle invalid parameters for the GOST block cipher, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted data from a TLS client.

Affected products

OpenSSL: through 1.0.0e; 0.9.1c, 0.9.2b, 0.9.3, 0.9.3a, 0.9.4, 0.9.5 (+60)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00017.html
http://osvdb.org/78191
http://secunia.com/advisories/57353
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1004564
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:007
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00017.html
http://osvdb.org/78191
http://secunia.com/advisories/57353
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1004564

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