[Secure-testing-team] Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1185-2] New openssl packages fix arbitrary code execution

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Oct 3 13:11:40 UTC 2006


* Noah Meyerhans:

> The fix used to correct CVE-2006-2940 introduced code that could lead to
> the use of uninitialized memory.  Such use is likely to cause the
> application using the openssl library to crash, and has the potential to
> allow an attacker to cause the execution of arbitrary code.

We need a new CVE ID for that one.



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