CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1672
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• openssl openssl 0.9.8f
• openssl openssl 0.9.8g
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30405 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30460 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30825 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30852 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30868 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31228 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31288 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004 Third Party Advisory
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606 Third Party Advisory
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492932/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020122 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42667 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html Third Party Advisory
- http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30405 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30460 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30825 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30852 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30868 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31228 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31288 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004 Third Party Advisory
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606 Third Party Advisory
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492932/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020122 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42667 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html Third Party Advisory