When was CVE-2006-2937 disclosed?

CVE-2006-2937 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 28, 2006, with the most recent update on April 23, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

Is CVE-2006-2937 actively exploited?

CVE-2006-2937 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 90.0% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

How do I remediate CVE-2006-2937?

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2006-2937, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

CVE-2006-2937

NONECVSS 0.0

0.0

OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) via malformed ASN.1 structures that trigger an improperly handled error condition.

CVSS v3: —
EG Score: —
EPSS: 90.0%
KEV: Not listed

References (272)

secalert@redhatftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-007.txt.asc
secalert@redhatftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc
secalert@redhathttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
secalert@redhathttp://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01118771
secalert@redhathttp://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-613
secalert@redhathttp://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00805100
secalert@redhathttp://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00849540
secalert@redhathttp://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-11.txt
secalert@redhathttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
secalert@redhathttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-September/049715.html
secalert@redhathttp://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
secalert@redhathttp://marc.info/?l=bind-announce&m=116253119512445&w=2
secalert@redhathttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2
secalert@redhathttp://openbsd.org/errata.html#openssl2
secalert@redhathttp://openvpn.net/changelog.html

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