CVE-2002-1568 Information

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.6e uses assertions when detecting buffer overflow attacks instead of less severe mechanisms which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain messages that cause OpenSSL to abort from a failed assertion as demonstrated using SSLv2 CLIENT_MASTER_KEY messages which are not properly handled in s2_srvr.c.

Reference

http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=7659 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106511018214983 http://www.ebitech.sk/patrik/SA/SA-20031002.txt