CVE-2014-0221

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 87.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The dtls1_get_message_fragment function in d1_both.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8za, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (recursion and client crash) via a DTLS hello message in an invalid DTLS handshake.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20
MariaDB: from 10.0.0 before 10.0.13 — fixed in 10.0.13
OpenSSL: from 0.9.8 before 0.9.8za; from 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m; from 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h — fixed in 0.9.8za, 1.0.0m, 1.0.1h
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5, 6.0
RedHat Storage: 2.1
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; OpenSSL 0.9.8za, 1.0.0m, 1.0.1h. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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