CVE-2014-8275
MEDIUMEPSS 97th pctlDescription
OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not enforce certain constraints on certificate data, which allows remote attackers to defeat a fingerprint-based certificate-blacklist protection mechanism by including crafted data within a certificate's unsigned portion, related to crypto/asn1/a_verify.c, crypto/dsa/dsa_asn1.c, crypto/ecdsa/ecs_vrf.c, and crypto/x509/x_all.c.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10679
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148363.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00037.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142496179803395&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142496289803847&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142720981827617&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142721102728110&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142895206924048&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050205101530&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050254401665&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050297101809&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0066.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0800.html
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150310-ssl
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3125
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:019
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:062
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2015-2365600.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71935
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033378
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa88
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/684400ce192dac51df3d3e92b61830a6ef90be3e
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/cb62ab4b17818fe66d2fed0a7fe71969131c811b
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10102
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10108
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX216642
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150108.txt
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