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CVE-2015-3196
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 13.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2015-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-362
Description
ssl/s3_clnt.c in OpenSSL 1.0.0 before 1.0.0t, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1p, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2d, when used for a multi-threaded client, writes the PSK identity hint to an incorrect data structure, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (race condition and double free) via a crafted ServerKeyExchange message.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
- Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 22
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE Icewall DFW: 10.0
- HP Icewall Sso Agent Option: 10.0
- OpenSSL: 1.0.0, 1.0.0a, 1.0.0b, 1.0.0c, 1.0.0d, 1.0.0e (+30)
- Oracle Corporation VM VirtualBox: from 4.3.0 through 4.3.35; from 5.0.0 through 5.0.13
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.7, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.2, 7.3, 7.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
References
- http://fortiguard.com/advisory/openssl-advisory-december-2015
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173801.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00070.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00071.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382583417444&w=2
- http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2617.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151204-openssl
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3413
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