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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2006-7250 json

The mime_hdr_cmp function in crypto/asn1/asn_mime.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8t and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NUL…

published 2012-02-29 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-7227

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.7%
EPSS 6.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The mime_hdr_cmp function in crypto/asn1/asn_mime.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8t and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted S/MIME message.

Patch / fix

  • openssl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.0h-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-7250

  • openssl RHEL 5 0.9.8e-12.el5
  • openssl-perl RHEL 5 0.9.8e-12.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1335

  • libqt4 SLES 12 SP1, SLES 12, SLED 12 SP1 +7 more 4.8.6-7.1
  • libqt4-sql-plugins SLES 12 SP1, SLES 12, SLED 12 SP1 +7 more 4.8.6-7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-403SUSE-SU-403 Forbidden-1

  • openssl-1_1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.1.1l-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11127-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-7250 updated cvss 5.0

openssl: mime_hdr_cmp NULL dereference crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 openssl, openssl096b Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl097a
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5, openssl-perl 0.9.8e-12.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5, openssl-perl 0.9.8e-12.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1335
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl, openssl098e, openssl-perl Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 openssl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

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