Published: 29/05/2008 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 383

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g, when the TLS server name extensions are enabled, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed Client Hello packet. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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Debian Bug report logs - #483379 openssl: CVE-2008-1672, CVE-2008-0891 multiple security issues Package: openssl; Maintainer for openssl is Debian OpenSSL Team <pkg-openssl-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for openssl is src:openssl (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Nico Golde <nion@debianorg> Date: Wed, 28 M ...

It was discovered that OpenSSL was vulnerable to a double-free when using TLS server extensions A remote attacker could send a crafted packet and cause a denial of service via application crash in applications linked against OpenSSL Ubuntu 804 LTS does not compile TLS server extensions by default (CVE-2008-0891) ...

CWE-189 http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405 http://secunia.com/advisories/30405 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/661475 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004 http://secunia.com/advisories/30825 http://secunia.com/advisories/31288 http://secunia.com/advisories/31228 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/30868 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html http://secunia.com/advisories/30460 http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400 http://secunia.com/advisories/30852 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020121 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107 http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42666 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483379 https://usn.ubuntu.com/620-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/661475

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