CVE-2014-3571 Null dereference in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted DTLS message triggering a NULL pointer dereference in OpenSSL.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2014-3571?

CVE-2014-3571 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openssl Openssl, published on 9 Jan 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted DTLS message that is processed with a different read operation for the handshake header than for the handshake body, related to the dtls1_get_record function in d1_pkt.c and the ssl3_read_n function in s3_pkt.c.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3571?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openssl Openssl.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3571?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-3571 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3571 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Openssl Openssl vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as CVE-2015-3571, DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3571, GHSA-hrxr-3c76-p924, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3571.

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