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Bug 1180234 (CVE-2014-3571) - CVE-2014-3571 openssl: DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record
Summary: CVE-2014-3571 openssl: DTLS segmentation fault in dtls1_get_record
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-3571
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1181013 1181015 1181016 1181017 1181018
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-08 16:46 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-10-20 10:48 UTC (History)
26 users (show)

Fixed In Version: OpenSSL 1.0.1k, OpenSSL 1.0.0p, OpenSSL 0.9.8zd
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-10-20 10:48:43 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0066 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openssl security update 2015-01-22 02:28:18 UTC

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-08 16:46:19 UTC 
OpenSSL released security advisory [1] which fixes the below issue:

A carefully crafted DTLS message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due
to a NULL pointer dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack.

[1]: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150108.txt
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2015-01-08 18:20:49 UTC 
Upstream commits that look to fix the problem:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/248385c606620b29ecc96ca9d3603463f879652b
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/feba02f3919495e1b960c33ba849e10e77d0785d


External References:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150108.txt
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-01-12 08:29:05 UTC 
Created openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1181013]
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-01-13 00:02:28 UTC 
openssl-1.0.1k-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-01-16 04:14:15 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of openssl097a as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of openssl098e as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact and does not plan to address this flaw for the above components in any future security updates.

This issue affects the version of openssl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-01-20 21:05:58 UTC 
openssl-1.0.1e-41.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 John T. Rose 2015-01-20 21:25:40 UTC 
(In reply to Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala from comment #6)
> Statement:
> 
> This issue does not affect the version of openssl097a as shipped with Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of openssl098e as
> shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has
> rated this issue as having Moderate security impact and does not plan to
> address this flaw for the above components in any future security updates.

This seems to say that this issue won't be addressed in RHEL6 or RHEL7 however the released errata states that it was resolved.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0066.html

Which is correct?
Comment 10 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-20 22:20:05 UTC 
RHSA-2015:0066 updates openssl packages.  Quoted statement is for openssl097a and openssl098e compatibility packages.
Comment 11 John T. Rose 2015-01-20 22:22:27 UTC 
Oh, of course. I understand now. Thanks.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-21 21:29:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:0066 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0066.html
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