National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1672

Overview

OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/30/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of OpenSSL as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#520586

Name: VU#520586

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586

External Source: BID

Name: 29405

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-4723

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1937

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-620-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080602 rPSA-2008-0181-1 openssl openssl-scripts

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/492932/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1680

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1680

External Source: MISC

Name: http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400

Hyperlink:http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606

Hyperlink:http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-210-08

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200806-08

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31288

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31288

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31228

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31228

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30868

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30868

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30852

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30852

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30825

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30825

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30460

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30460

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30405

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30405