CVE-2010-0740

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The ssl3_get_record function in ssl/s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed record in a TLS connection that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, related to the minor version number. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 0.9.8f, 0.9.8g, 0.9.8h, 0.9.8i, 0.9.8j, 0.9.8k (+2)

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory.asc
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038587.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127128920008563&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127557640302499&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/39932
http://secunia.com/advisories/42724
http://secunia.com/advisories/42733
http://secunia.com/advisories/43311
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4723
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:076
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20100324.txt

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