K16323 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2015-0209

Security Advisory Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the d2i_ECPrivateKey function in crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impacts via a malformed Elliptic Curve (EC) private-key file that is improperly handled during import.
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CVE-2015-0209
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Impact
An attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack using a malformed Elliptic Curve (EC) private-key file.