CVE-2015-0209

medium
Published 2015-03-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the d2i_ECPrivateKey function in crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed Elliptic Curve (EC) private-key file that is improperly handled during import.

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-2015-0209

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.0.1k-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.0.1k-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.0.1k-2
debian debiansidfixed1.0.1k-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.0.1k-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl{"endIncluding":"0.9.8ze"}
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0m
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0n
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0o
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0p
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0q
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2

References

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