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CVE-2008-1672

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04
• OpenSSL: 0.9.8f, 0.9.8g

References

• http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30405
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30460
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30825
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30852
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30868
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31228
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31288
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606
• http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400

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