CVE-2006-2937
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 11.0%EU EUVD
OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via malformed ASN.1 structures that trigger an improperly handled error condition.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 11.0% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-2934)
- Published
- September 28, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-2934 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-007.txt.asc
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01118771
- http://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-613
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00805100
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00849540
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-11.txt(Patch)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-September/049715.html(Patch)
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bind-announce&m=116253119512445&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2
- http://openbsd.org/errata.html#openssl2(Patch)
- http://openvpn.net/changelog.html(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22094(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22116(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22130(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22165(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22166(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22172(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22186(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22193(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22207(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22212(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22216(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22220(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22240(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22259(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22260(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22284(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22330(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22385(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22460(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22487(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22544(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22626(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22671(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22758
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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