CVE-2015-0289

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The PKCS#7 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a does not properly handle a lack of outer ContentInfo, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by leveraging an application that processes arbitrary PKCS#7 data and providing malformed data with ASN.1 encoding, related to crypto/pkcs7/pk7_doit.c and crypto/pkcs7/pk7_lib.c.

Affected products

OpenSSL: through 0.9.8ze; 1.0.0, 1.0.0a, 1.0.0b, 1.0.0c, 1.0.0d, 1.0.0e (+26)

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10680
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152733.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152734.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152844.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/156823.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157177.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00062.html

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