CVE-2008-0891
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 4.4%EU EUVD
Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g, when the TLS server name extensions are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed Client Hello packet. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 4.4% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0898)
- Published
- May 29, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0898 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openssl / openssl
- openssl / openssl
References
- http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30405(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30460
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30825
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30852
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30868
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31228
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31288
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/661475(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107
- http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020121
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42666
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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