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
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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
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