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openssl: off-by-one error

Package(s):openssl CVE #(s):CVE-2007-5135
Created:October 3, 2007 Updated:July 31, 2008
Description: From the Debian advisory: An off-by-one error has been identified in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() routine in the libssl library from OpenSSL, an implementation of Secure Socket Layer cryptographic libraries and utilities. This error could allow an attacker to crash an application making use of OpenSSL's libssl library, or potentially execute arbitrary code in the security context of the user running such an application.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2008-0241-1 2008-07-30
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:005 2008-03-06
Red Hat RHSA-2007:1003-02 2007-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0813-01 2007-10-22
Fedora FEDORA-2007-2530 2007-10-18
Fedora FEDORA-2007-725 2007-10-15
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:020 2007-10-12
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0964-01 2007-10-12
Debian DSA-1379-2 2007-10-10
Gentoo 200710-06 2007-10-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:193 2007-10-04
rPath rPSA-2007-0206-1 2007-10-03
Foresight FLEA-2007-0058-1 2007-10-03
Debian DSA-1379 2007-10-02

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