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Denial Of Service Vulnerability in OpenSSL June-09 (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
This host has OpenSSL installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
A NULL pointer dereference error in ssl/s3_pkt.c file which does not properly check the input packets value via a DTLS ChangeCipherSpec packet that occurs before ClientHello.
Affected Software
Affected Software
OpenSSL version prior to 0.9.8i on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to OpenSSL version 0.9.8i or later.