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CVE-2014-7968

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2014-10-02

Bugzilla:: 1150812: CVE-2014-7968 vdsm: ssl_accept may block connections on uncompleted handshake

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

VDSM allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection blocking) by keeping an SSL connection open.

Find out more about CVE-2014-7968 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score	2.9
Base Metrics	AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Adjacent Network
Access Complexity	Medium
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 Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts (vdsm)	RHBA-2014:1946	2014-12-02
RHEV Manager 3 (vdsm)	RHBA-2014:1946	2014-12-02
RHEV Agents (vdsm) (vdsm)	RHBA-2014:1946	2014-12-02

Last Modified 2018-05-22T18:14:53+00:00

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