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CVE-2009-4355

Published: 13 January 2010

Memory leak in the zlib_stateful_finish function in crypto/comp/c_zlib.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8l and earlier and 1.0.0 Beta through Beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors that trigger incorrect calls to the CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data function, as demonstrated by use of SSLv3 and PHP with the Apache HTTP Server, a related issue to CVE-2008-1678.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
openssl
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

dapper
Released (0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.11)
hardy
Released (0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.9)
intrepid
Released (0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.6)
jaunty
Released (0.9.8g-15ubuntu3.4)
karmic
Released (0.9.8g-16ubuntu3.1)