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OpenSSL Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA30405
Release Date: 2008-05-28
Last Update: 2008-06-02
Popularity: 8,045 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:OpenSSL 0.9.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenSSL, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) A double-free error in the handling of server name extension data if "server_name" set to 0x00 can be exploited to crash a server application using OpenSSL by sending a specially crafted TLS 1.0 Client Hello packet.

Successful exploitation requires that OpenSSL is compiled using the TLS server name extensions.

2) A NULL pointer dereference error can be exploited by a malicious server to crash a client application when the "Server Key exchange message" is omitted from a TLS handshake and anonymous Diffie-Hellman key exchange is used.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g.

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