Vulnerability CVE-2015-5291
Published: 2015-11-02

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in PolarSSL 1.x before 1.2.17 and ARM mbed TLS (formerly PolarSSL) 1.3.x before 1.3.14 and 2.x before 2.1.2 allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long hostname to the server name indication (SNI) extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges. See CVE-2015-8036 for the session ticket issue that was introduced in 1.3.0.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Polarssl -> Polarssl 
ARM -> Mbed tls 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170317.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169765.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00119.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468
https://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cve-2015-5291.pdf
https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01
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