CVE-2009-3245: OpenSSL

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8l; version 0.9.8 only; version 0.9.8a only; version 0.9.8b only; version 0.9.8c only; version 0.9.8d only; …

Published 2010-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.