CVE-2008-0891
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-05-29 16:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:01
Severity ?
Summary
Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g, when the TLS server name extensions are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed Client Hello packet. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30405Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30460
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30825
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30852
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30868
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31228
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31288
secalert@redhat.comhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttp://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606
secalert@redhat.comhttp://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/661475US Government Resource
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020121
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42666
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html
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