CVE-2010-0740

medium
Published 2010-03-26 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

The ssl3_get_record function in ssl/s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed record in a TLS connection that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, related to the minor version number. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-12334 dos linux verified
Andi ยท 2010-04-22

OpenSSL - Remote Denial of Service

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.9.8n-1
sid Fixed 0.9.8n-1
forky Fixed 0.9.8n-1
bullseye Fixed 0.9.8n-1
bookworm Fixed 0.9.8n-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8f
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8g
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8h
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8i
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8j
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8k
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8l
openssl opensslopenssl0.9.8m

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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