| Description: |
Vulnerability Insight: 1. Certain ASN.1 encodings that are rejected as invalidby the parser can trigger a bug in the deallocationof the corresponding data structure, corrupting thestack. This can be used as a denial of serviceattack. It is currently unknown whether this can beexploited to run malicious code. This issue does notaffect OpenSSL 0.9.6. an out of boundsread under certain circumstances, resulting in adenial of service vulnerability. crashthe verify code if it is set to ignore public keydecoding errors. Exploitation of an affectedapplication would result in a denial of servicevulnerability. handling,a server will parse a client certificate when one isnot specifically requested.
Impact: Remote Denial of Service (DoS)
Affected Software/OS: BIND v920 on HP-UX B.11.00, B.11.11, B.11.22, and B.11.23, running BINDv920.
Fix: Please Install the Updated Packages.
References: http://www11.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c00901847-1 |