CVE-2012-1165: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mime_param_cmp function in crypto/asn1/asn_mime.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8u and 1.x before 1.0.0h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted S/MIME message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-7250.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8t; version 0.9.1c only; version 0.9.2b only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.3a only; version 0.9.4 only; …

Published 2012-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.