ID

VAR-200403-0166

CVE

CAN-2004-0079

TITLE

OpenSSL Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

DESCRIPTION

Three security vulnerabilities have been reported to affect OpenSSL. Each of these remotely exploitable issues may result in a denial of service in applications which use OpenSSL. For the first issue, a NULL-pointer assignment can be triggered by attackers during SSL/TLS handshake exchanges. The CVE candidate name for this vulnerability is CAN-2004-0079. Versions 0.9.6c to 0.9.6k (inclusive) and from 0.9.7a to 0.9.7c (inclusive) are vulnerable. The second issue is also exploited during the SSL/TLS handshake, but only when Kerberos ciphersuites are in use. The vendor has reported that this vulnerability may not be a threat to many, because it occurs only when Kerberos ciphersuites are in use, an uncommon configuration. The CVE candidate name for this vulnerability is CAN-2004-0112. Versions 0.9.7a, 0.9.7b, and 0.9.7c are affected. This entry will be retired when individual BID records are created for each issue. *Note: A third denial-of-service vulnerability included in the announcement was discovered affecting 0.9.6 and fixed in 0.9.6d. The CVE candidate name for this vulnerability is CAN-2004-0081. Null-pointer assignment during SSL handshake =============================================== Testing performed by the OpenSSL group using the Codenomicon TLS Test Tool uncovered a null-pointer assignment in the do_change_cipher_spec() function. A remote attacker could perform a carefully crafted SSL/TLS handshake against a server that used the OpenSSL library in such a way as to cause OpenSSL to crash. Depending on the application this could lead to a denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0079 to this issue. Any application that makes use of OpenSSL's SSL/TLS library may be affected. Please contact your application vendor for details. 2. A remote attacker could perform a carefully crafted SSL/TLS handshake against a server configured to use Kerberos ciphersuites in such a way as to cause OpenSSL to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0112 to this issue. Any application that makes use of OpenSSL's SSL/TLS library may be affected. Please contact your application vendor for details. Recommendations --------------- Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.7d or 0.9.6m. Recompile any OpenSSL applications statically linked to OpenSSL libraries. OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.6m are available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (you can find the various FTP mirrors under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html): ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ The distribution file names are: o openssl-0.9.7d.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 1b49e90fc8a75c3a507c0a624529aca5 o openssl-0.9.6m.tar.gz [normal] MD5 checksum: 1b63bfdca1c37837dddde9f1623498f9 o openssl-engine-0.9.6m.tar.gz [engine] MD5 checksum: 4c39d2524bd466180f9077f8efddac8c The checksums were calculated using the following command: openssl md5 openssl-0.9*.tar.gz Credits ------- Patches for these issues were created by Dr Stephen Henson (steve@openssl.org) of the OpenSSL core team. The OpenSSL team would like to thank Codenomicon for supplying the TLS Test Tool which was used to discover these vulnerabilities, and Joe Orton of Red Hat for performing the majority of the testing. References ---------- http://www.codenomicon.com/testtools/tls/ http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0079 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0112 URL for this Security Advisory: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20040317.txt

AFFECTED PRODUCTS

THREAT TYPE

network

TYPE

Unknown

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CREDITS

These issues were discovered by Stephen Henson and the OpenSSL Group.

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2022-05-06T07:44:02.207000+00:00

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