RULE(RULE ID:709992)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2015-07-03
Rule Name: Openssl Invalid PSS Parameters Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2015-0208)
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Rule Protection Details
Description: The ASN.1 signature-verification implementation in the rsa_item_verify function in crypto/rsa/rsa_ameth.c in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted RSA PSS parameters to an endpoint that uses the certificate-verification feature.
Impact: An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully.
Affected OS: Solaris, Other Unix, FreeBSD, Linux
Reference: SecurityFocusBID:73230
SecurityTrackerID:1031929
Solutions
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