CVE-2008-1678

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in the zlib_stateful_init function in crypto/comp/c_zlib.c in libssl in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via multiple calls, as demonstrated by initial SSL client handshakes to the Apache HTTP Server mod_ssl that specify a compression algorithm.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 0.9.8f, 0.9.8g, 0.9.8h

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222643
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=121060672602371&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31026
http://secunia.com/advisories/31416
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
http://secunia.com/advisories/34219
http://secunia.com/advisories/35264
http://secunia.com/advisories/38761
http://secunia.com/advisories/42724
http://secunia.com/advisories/42733

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