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OpenSSL Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2006-2940 - Vulnerability Database
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OpenSSL Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2006-2940

High
Reference: CVE-2006-2940
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2940
Title: OpenSSL Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d and earlier versions allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via parasitic public keys with large (1) quotpublic exponentquot or (2) quotpublic modulusquot values in X.509 certificates that require extra time to process when using RSA signature verification.