CVE-2014-4911

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The ssl_decrypt_buf function in library/ssl_tls.c in PolarSSL before 1.2.11 and 1.3.x before 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the GCM ciphersuites, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon Defensics toolkit.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
PolarSSL: through 1.2.10; 1.3.0, 1.3.0-alpha1, 1.3.0-rc0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3 (+14)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/60215
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2981
https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2014-02
http://secunia.com/advisories/60215
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2981
https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/polarssl-security-advisory-2014-02

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