VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-5298

medium
Published 2014-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

Race condition in the ssl3_read_bytes function in s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL through 1.0.1g, when SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject data across sessions or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and parsing error) via an SSL connection in a multithreaded environment.

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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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
20 Affected —
19 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
12 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.0.1g-3
sid Fixed 1.0.1g-3
forky Fixed 1.0.1g-3
bullseye Fixed 1.0.1g-3
bookworm Fixed 1.0.1g-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl{"endIncluding":"1.0.1g"}
mysql mariadbmariadb{"startIncluding":"10.0.0","endExcluding":"10.0.13"}10.0.13

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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