CVE-2014-3508: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 23.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The OBJ_obj2txt function in crypto/objects/obj_dat.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8 before 0.9.8zb, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0n, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1i, when pretty printing is used, does not ensure the presence of '\0' characters, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process stack memory by reading output from X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex, and unspecified other functions.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: 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; version 0.9.8e only; …

Published 2014-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.