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The H Open Source reports that a flaw in the 1.0 branch of OpenSSL can potentially be exploited to compromise clients and even execute injected code



Security expert Georgi Guninski has pointed out a security issue in the 1.0 branch of OpenSSL that potentially allows SSL servers to compromise clients. Apparently the hole can be exploited simply by sending a specially crafted certificate to the client, causing deallocated memory to be accessed in the ssl3_get_key_exchange function (in ssl\s3_clnt.c).
  Vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.0.x