SB2015032006 - Denial of service in OpenSSL
Published: March 20, 2015 Updated: December 16, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015032006
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0287)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the ASN1_item_ex_d2i function in crypto/asn1/tasn_dec.c. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202380
- https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=b717b083073b6cacc0a5e2397b661678aff7ae7f
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152844.html
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00062.html
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