Out-of-bounds read in OpenSSL - CVE-2012-2333

 

Out-of-bounds read in OpenSSL - CVE-2012-2333

Published: May 15, 2012 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32808
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2333
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenSSL Software Foundation
Affected software:
OpenSSL

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Integer underflow in OpenSSL before 0.9.8x, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0j, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1c, when TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, or DTLS is used with CBC encryption,. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TLS packet that is not properly handled during a certain explicit IV calculation.


How to mitigate CVE-2012-2333

The vendor has issued the following versions to address this vulnerability: 0.9.8x, 1.0.1c.

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