Resource management error in OpenSSL - CVE-2014-0221

 

Resource management error in OpenSSL - CVE-2014-0221

Published: April 4, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11532
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0221
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing invalid DTLS handshake. A remote attacker can initiate SSL/TLS connection to the affected application and trigger denial of service conditions.

Affected software

OpenSSL
HPE Operations Orchestration
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
openssl (Ubuntu package)
mingw-openssl
Operations Analytics
TMS RAMSAN 710 & 810 Machine Type 9833 -AS1 & -AE1
FlashSystem 710 & 810 Machine Type 9830 -AS1 & -AE1
TMS RAMSAN 720 and 820 machine type 9834 -AS2 & AE2
IBM FlashSystem 720 and 820 Machine Type 9831 –AS2 and -AE2
IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module
HP Smart Update Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0221

Update to version 0.9.8za, 1.0.0m or 1.0.1h.

openssl (Ubuntu package) - update to 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.21
mingw-openssl - addressed in versions 1.0.1j-1.el7, 1.0.1j-1.fc21
IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module - update to 3.66F
TMS RAMSAN 710 & 810 Machine Type 9833 -AS1 & -AE1 - update to 5.6.2
FlashSystem 710 & 810 Machine Type 9830 -AS1 & -AE1 - update to 5.6.2
TMS RAMSAN 720 and 820 machine type 9834 -AS2 & AE2 - update to 6.3.2
IBM FlashSystem 720 and 820 Machine Type 9831 –AS2 and -AE2 - update to 6.3.2
HP Smart Update Manager - update to 6.4.1

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