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Date: Thu Jan 14 2010 - 20:44:17 CST

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TITLE:
OpenSSL "CRYPTO_free_all_ex_data()" Memory Leak Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38200

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38200/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenSSL, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to certain applications (e.g. Apache
with the PHP module) calling OpenSSL's "CRYPTO_free_all_ex_data()"
function prematurely. In certain cases, this can result in memory
leaks, which can be exploited to e.g. cause a DoS due to memory
exhaustion.

This is related to vulnerability #6 in:
SA28046

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository.
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19068
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19069

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by an rPath customer.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19068
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19069
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-3157
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546707

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA28046:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28046/

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