CVE-2015-0287: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ASN1_item_ex_d2i function in crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a does not reinitialize CHOICE and ADB data structures, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and memory corruption) by leveraging an application that relies on ASN.1 structure reuse.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8ze; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0a only; version 1.0.0b only; version 1.0.0c only; version 1.0.0d only; …

Published 2015-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.