CVE-2012-1165

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The mime_param_cmp function in crypto/asn1/asn_mime.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8u and 1.x before 1.0.0h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted S/MIME message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7250.

Affected products

OpenSSL: through 0.9.8t; 0.9.1c, 0.9.2b, 0.9.3, 0.9.3a, 0.9.4, 0.9.5 (+79)

References

http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=22252
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077086.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077221.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077666.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/092905.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133728068926468&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134039053214295&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0426.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1306.html

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