CVE-2014-0198

La función do_ssl3_write en s3_pkt.c en OpenSSL 1.x hasta 1.0.1g, cuando SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS está habilitado, no maneja debidamente un puntero de buffer durante ciertas llamadas recursivas, lo que permite a atacantes remotos causar una denegación de servicio (referencia a puntero nulo y caída de aplicación) a través de vectores que provocan una condición de alerta.

OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library. It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a client and a server. Note: In order to exploit this flaw, both the server and the client must be using a vulnerable version of OpenSSL; the server must be using OpenSSL version 1.0.1 and above, and the client must be using any version of OpenSSL.