VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8036

medium
Published 2015-11-02 · 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
6.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 session ticket name to the session ticket extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message to resume a session. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2015-5291 per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges.

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 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
21 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
armmbed_tls{"startIncluding":"1.3.0","endExcluding":"1.3.14"}1.3.14
polarsslpolarssl{"endIncluding":"1.2.17"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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