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CVE-2015-3196 Detail

Description

ssl/s3_clnt.c in OpenSSL 1.0.0 before 1.0.0t, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1p, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2d, when used for a multi-threaded client, writes the PSK identity hint to an incorrect data structure, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (race condition and double free) via a crafted ServerKeyExchange message.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://fortiguard.com/advisory/openssl-advisory-december-2015 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173801.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00070.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00071.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382583417444&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2617.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151204-openssl CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3413 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/openssl-advisory-december-2015 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78622 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034294 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2015&m=slackware-security.754583 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2830-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c66a669dfc7b3792f7af0758ea26fe8502ce70c CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944173 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05398322 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40100 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-3196
NVD Published Date:
12/06/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.