CVE-2006-2937: OpenSSL

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 10.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via malformed ASN.1 structures that trigger an improperly handled error condition.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.7a only; version 0.9.7b only; version 0.9.7c only; version 0.9.7d only; version 0.9.7e only; …

Published 2006-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.