A memory leak flaw was found in the way an OpenSSL handled failed session ticket integrity checks. A remote attacker could exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server by sending a large number of invalid session tickets to that server.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3567 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue does not affect the version of openssl shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Server 5 and 6; and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 and 2 because openssl-0.9.8e does not include support for session tickets.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 (rhev-hypervisor6) | RHSA-2015:0126 | 2015-02-04 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:1652 | 2014-10-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:1652 | 2014-10-16 |
| Red Hat Storage Server 2.1 (openssl) | RHSA-2014:1692 | 2014-10-22 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | openssl | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 | openssl | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 | openssl | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | openssl | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | openssl098e | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | openssl | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | openssl097a | Not affected |
| RHEV Manager 3 | mingw-virt-viewer | Will not fix |
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