CVE-2015-5291
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in PolarSSL 1.x before 1.2.17 and ARM mbed TLS (formerly PolarSSL) 1.3.x before 1.3.14 and 2.x before 2.1.2 allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long hostname to the server name indication (SNI) extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges. See CVE-2015-8036 for the session ticket issue that was introduced in 1.3.0.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Fedora Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | Affected | — |
| 22 | Affected | — |
| 21 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 42.1 | Affected | — |
| 13.2 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170317.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169765.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00119.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468
- https://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cve-2015-5291.pdf
- https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5291
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.