CVE-2009-1379

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the dtls1_retrieve_buffered_fragment function in ssl/d1_both.c in OpenSSL 1.0.0 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (openssl s_client crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a DTLS packet, as demonstrated by a packet from a server that uses a crafted server certificate.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 1.0.0-beta2

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02029444
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1923&user=guest&pass=guest
http://secunia.com/advisories/35416
http://secunia.com/advisories/35461
http://secunia.com/advisories/35571
http://secunia.com/advisories/35729
http://secunia.com/advisories/36533
http://secunia.com/advisories/37003
http://secunia.com/advisories/38761

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