Buffer overflow in OpenSSL - CVE-2017-3738

 

Buffer overflow in OpenSSL - CVE-2017-3738

Published: December 8, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9595
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3738
CWE-ID: CWE-120
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 obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to buffer overflow in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. A remote attacker can cause the server to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients and perform attack on TLS.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-3738

Update to version 1.0.2n.

Sources