CVE-2009-3245

critical

Published 2010-03-05 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8m does not check for a NULL return value from bn_wexpand function calls in (1) crypto/bn/bn_div.c, (2) crypto/bn/bn_gf2m.c, (3) crypto/ec/ec2_smpl.c, and (4) engines/e_ubsec.c, which has unspecified impact and context-dependent attack vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.9.8m-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.9.8m-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.9.8m-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.9.8m-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.9.8m-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
openssl	openssl	`{"endIncluding":"0.9.8l"}`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8a`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8b`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8c`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8d`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8e`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8f`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8g`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8h`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8i`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8j`
openssl	openssl	`0.9.8k`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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