CVE-2014-3507

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-08-06
CWE:
CWE-401
Bugzilla:
1127502: CVE-2014-3507 openssl: DTLS memory leak from zero-length fragments
A flaw was discovered in the way OpenSSL handled DTLS packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a DTLS server or client using OpenSSL to crash or use excessive amounts of memory.

Find out more about CVE-2014-3507 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This did not affect openssl packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (based on upstream 0.9.8e) and openssl 1.0.0 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (i.e. packages released before RHBA-2013:1585, which rebased openssl from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1e). The issue was introduced upstream in versions 0.9.8o and 1.0.0a.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Storage Server 2.1 (openssl) RHSA-2014:1054 2014-08-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openssl) RHSA-2014:1052 2014-08-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openssl) RHSA-2014:1052 2014-08-13

Affected Packages State

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 6 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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