PT-2008-1123 · Openssl · Openssl

Published 2008-05-29 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-1672

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenSSL versions 0.9.8f through 0.9.8g

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses particular cipher suites, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. This can lead to disruption of protected information availability.

Recommendations For versions 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g, update to a version newer than 0.9.8g to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of particular cipher suites in TLS handshakes to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-09627

CVE-2008-1672

DTSA-136-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11125-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11126-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11127-1

SUSE-FU-2022:0445-1

Affected Products

Openssl

References · 172

• http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-1672 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1672 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1672 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11127-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09627 · Security Note
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11126-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/29405 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1672 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2177 · Note