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CVE-2008-1672 Detail

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.


Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/30/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of OpenSSL as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html 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 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-1672
NVD Published Date:
05/29/2008
NVD Last Modified:
02/02/2022
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.