CVE-2012-2131

high
Published 2012-04-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Multiple integer signedness errors in crypto/buffer/buffer.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8v allow remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact, via crafted DER data, as demonstrated by an X.509 certificate or an RSA public key. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2110.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2131

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120424.txt

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8v

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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