CVE-2010-0742

Publication date 3 June 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Description

The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) implementation in crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8o and 1.x before 1.0.0a does not properly handle structures that contain OriginatorInfo, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify invalid memory locations or conduct double-free attacks, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via unspecified vectors.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openssl	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
	9.10 karmic	Not affected
	9.04 jaunty	Not affected
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not affected
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 0.9.8h. cms is not enabled in Ubuntu.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
openssl	Upstream: http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19693 Upstream: http://cvs.openssl.org/filediff?f=openssl/crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c&v1=1.8&v2=1.8.6.1