CVE-2005-2969 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-2969 at MITRE

Description

The SSL/TLS server implementation in OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7h and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8a, when using the SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING option, disables a verification step that is required for preventing protocol version rollback attacks, which allows remote attackers to force a client and server to use a weaker protocol than needed via a man-in-the-middle attack.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 120103 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 202366 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 215623 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:061, published Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:57:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:42 2025