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CVE-2008-1672

Date: May 29, 2008

OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites," which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (26)

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020122

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31228

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30852

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405

Url: http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31288

Url: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt

Url: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492932/100/0/threaded

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-1672

Url: http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30460

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1672

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42667

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30825

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30405

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30868

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-1672

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Authentication

CWE-287

NULL Pointer Dereference

CWE-476

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2008-1672

Date: May 29, 2008

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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