CVE-2012-0050

medium
Published 2012-01-19 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.8s and 1.0.0f does not properly support DTLS applications, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors related to an out-of-bounds read. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-4108.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.0.0g-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.0.0g-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.0.0g-1
debian debiansidfixed1.0.0g-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.0.0g-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8s
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0f

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.