# CVE-2014-9744: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory exhaustion by sending numerous ClientHello messages to applications using PolarSSL.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Aug 2015
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-99v5-5368-pxv4

## What is CVE-2014-9744?

CVE-2014-9744 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Memory leak in PolarSSL before 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of ClientHello messages.  NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2014-8628 per ADT3 due to different affected versions.

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9744?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Opensuse Opensuse, Polarssl Polarssl.

## How do I fix CVE-2014-9744?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9744 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2014-9744 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9744 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse

- [CVE-2015-5957](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5957/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2015-0491](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-0491/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-2388](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2388/): Integer overflow in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2010-1866](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-1866/): Integer overflow in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2015-0492](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-0492/): Other in n/a (critical 9.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-9744 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2014-9744 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9744 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Opensuse Opensuse. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-9744/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-9744/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9744
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9744
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9744

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-9744/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.