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CVE-2010-5298

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 34.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the ssl3_read_bytes function in s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL through 1.0.1g, when SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject data across sessions or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and parsing error) via an SSL connection in a multithreaded environment.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20
• MariaDB: from 10.0.0 before 10.0.13 — fixed in 10.0.13
• OpenSSL: through 1.0.1g
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MariaDB 10.0.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0187.html
• http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/004_openssl.patch.sig
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10629
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB29195
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136470.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136473.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00016.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140389274407904&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140389355508263&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140431828824371&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140448122410568&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140544599631400&w=2

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