CVE-2013-4353

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The ssl3_take_mac function in ssl/s3_both.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1f allows remote TLS servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted Next Protocol Negotiation record in a TLS handshake.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 1.0.1, 1.0.1-beta1, 1.0.1-beta2, 1.0.1-beta3, 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b (+3)

References

http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bhb=refs/heads/OpenSSL_1_0_1-stable
http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=197e0ea817ad64820789d86711d55ff50d71f631
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-updates/2014-01/msg00065.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00067.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00070.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0015.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0041.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg400001841
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg400001843
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2837

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