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CVE-2009-1378 Detail

Description

Multiple memory leaks in the dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message function in ssl/d1_both.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8k and earlier 0.9.8 versions allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via DTLS records that (1) are duplicates or (2) have sequence numbers much greater than current sequence numbers, aka "DTLS fragment handling memory leak."


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/02/2009)

This issue did not affect versions of openssl as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. This issue was addressed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 by http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1335.html Note that both the DTLS specification and OpenSSLs implementation is still in development and unlikely to be used in production environments. There is no component shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 using OpenSSLs DTLS implementation, except for OpenSSLs testing command line client - openssl.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-009.txt.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=18188 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02029444 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=124247679213944&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=124263491424212&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1931&user=guest&pass=guest CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35128 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35416 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35461 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35571 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35729 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36533 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37003 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38761 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42724 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42733 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200912-01.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.663049 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4AD43807.7080105%40users.sourceforge.net CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://voodoo-circle.sourceforge.net/sa/sa-20091012-01.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:120 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/18/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1335.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35001 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022241 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-792-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1377 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1378 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11309 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Tool Signature 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7229 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Tool Signature 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8720 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-1378
NVD Published Date:
05/19/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/22/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.