CVE-2015-1788

It was reported that OpenSSL could enter an infinite loop when processing an ECParameters structure if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial field. This can be used to perform denial of service attacks against any system which processes public keys, certificate requests or certificates, including TLS clients and TLS servers with client authentication enabled.

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of openssl package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

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