CVE-2010-0740

Published Mar 26, 2010

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description
The ssl3_get_record function in ssl/s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed record in a TLS connection that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, related to the minor version number. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Evaluator

Comment
-
Impact
Per: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20100324.txt 'Affected versions depend on the C compiler used with OpenSSL: - If 'short' is a 16-bit integer, this issue applies only to OpenSSL 0.9.8m. - Otherwise, this issue applies to OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m.'
Solution
Per: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20100324.txt 'Affected versions depend on the C compiler used with OpenSSL: - If 'short' is a 16-bit integer, this issue applies only to OpenSSL 0.9.8m. - Otherwise, this issue applies to OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m.'

Vendor comments

  • Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of openssl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

Configurations