CVE-2014-3509
MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctlDescription
Race condition in the ssl_parse_serverhello_tlsext function in t1_lib.c in OpenSSL 1.0.0 before 1.0.0n and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1i, when multithreading and session resumption are used, allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and client application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by sending Elliptic Curve (EC) Supported Point Formats Extension data.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory10.asc
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1052.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136470.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136473.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00036.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142350350616251&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142495837901899&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142624590206005&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142660345230545&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142791032306609&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143290437727362&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143290522027658&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0197.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58962
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59700
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59710
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59756
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60022
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60221
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60493
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60684
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60803
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60917
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60921
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60938
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61017
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61100
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61139
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61184
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61775
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61959
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-39.xml
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020240
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21682293
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21683389
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21686997
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2998
- http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-372998.htm
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:158
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69084
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030693
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127498
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95159
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fb0bc2b273bcc2d5401dd883fe869af4fc74bb21
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150888
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380
- https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-September/000196.html
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX216642
- https://techzone.ergon.ch/CVE-2014-3511
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:18.openssl.asc
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