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CVE-2014-3488

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The SslHandler in Netty before 3.9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted SSLv2Hello message.

Affected products

• netty: through 3.9.1.1; 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5 (+8)

References

• http://netty.io/news/2014/06/11/3-9-2-Final.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59196
• https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/2fa9400a59d0563a66908aba55c41e7285a04994
• https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2562
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00018.html
• http://netty.io/news/2014/06/11/3-9-2-Final.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59196
• https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/2fa9400a59d0563a66908aba55c41e7285a04994
• https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2562
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00018.html

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