Vulnerability CVE-2008-1672


Published: 2008-05-29   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g 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.

Type:

CWE-287

(Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Openssl project -> Openssl 

 References:
http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606
http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492932/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020122
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42667
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html

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