CVE-2015-0537

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-191

Description

Integer underflow in the base64-decoding implementation in EMC RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite (MES) 4.0.x before 4.0.8 and 4.1.x before 4.1.3, RSA BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition (Crypto-C ME) before 4.0.4 and 4.1, and RSA BSAFE SSL-C 2.8.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted base64 data, a similar issue to CVE-2015-0292.

Affected products

Dell Bsafe: from 4.0.0 before 4.0.8; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.3 — fixed in 4.0.8, 4.1.3
Dell Bsafe Crypto-C: before 4.0.4 — fixed in 4.0.4
Dell Bsafe Ssl-C: through 2.8.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Dell Bsafe 4.0.8, 4.1.3; Dell Bsafe Crypto-C 4.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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