It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a client and a server.
Find out more about CVE-2014-0224 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0624 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (openssl097a) | RHSA-2014:0626 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Update Support 6.2 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0627 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server) (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0627 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.3 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0627 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0625 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openssl098e) | RHSA-2014:0626 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Lifecycle Support 4 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0627 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.9 server) (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0627 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0679 | 2014-06-10 |
| RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 (rhev-hypervisor6) | RHSA-2014:0629 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Storage Server 2.1 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0628 | 2014-06-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openssl098e) | RHSA-2014:0680 | 2014-06-10 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.4 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:0627 | 2014-06-05 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | openssl | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 | openssl | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 | openssl | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | openssl | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | guest-images | Not affected |
| RHEV Manager 3 | rhev-hypervisor | Affected |
| RHEV Manager 3 | mingw-virt-viewer | Not affected |
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