Resource management error in OpenSSL - CVE-2014-3470

 

Resource management error in OpenSSL - CVE-2014-3470

Published: April 4, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11536
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3470
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 (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing ECDH ciphersuites in TLS clients. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted response to vulnerable OpenSSL client and cause the application to crash.



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-2014-3470

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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