CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0740

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2010-03-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-03-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The ssl3_get_record function in ssl/s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed record in a TLS connection that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, related to the minor version number. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl 0.9.8f • openssl openssl 0.9.8g • openssl openssl 0.9.8h • openssl openssl 0.9.8i • openssl openssl 0.9.8j • openssl openssl 0.9.8k • openssl openssl 0.9.8l • openssl openssl 0.9.8m

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References