CVE-2015-1791

medium
Published 2015-06-12 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Race condition in the ssl3_get_new_session_ticket function in ssl/s3_clnt.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zg, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0s, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1n, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2b, when used for a multi-threaded client, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by providing a NewSessionTicket during an attempt to reuse a ticket that had been obtained earlier.

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

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.0.2b-1
sid Fixed 1.0.2b-1
forky Fixed 1.0.2b-1
bullseye Fixed 1.0.2b-1
bookworm Fixed 1.0.2b-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl{"endIncluding":"0.9.8zf"}
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0m
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0n
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0o
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0p
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0q
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.0r
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1m
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2a

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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