CVE detail
CVE-2002-1568 — CVE-2002-1568
Published 2003-11-17 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor openssl · Product openssl · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0273
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
85.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References