CVE-2010-0740

high

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11731

https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html

https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html

https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1216

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0933

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0839

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0710

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vc41_u1_rel_notes.html

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023748

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded

http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20100324.txt

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:076

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723

http://secunia.com/advisories/43311

http://secunia.com/advisories/42733

http://secunia.com/advisories/42724

http://secunia.com/advisories/39932

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127557640302499&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127128920008563&w=2

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038587.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory.asc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-03-26

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High