CVE-2015-0290 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via pointer corruption in OpenSSL's SSL handling on specific 64-bit platforms with AES NI support.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-0290?
CVE-2015-0290 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openssl Openssl, published on 19 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The multi-block feature in the ssl3_write_bytes function in s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a on 64-bit x86 platforms with AES NI support does not properly handle certain non-blocking I/O cases, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pointer corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.
Weakness: CWE-17
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0290?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Openssl Openssl.
How do I fix CVE-2015-0290?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-0290 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-0290 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0290 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Openssl Openssl
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hhgx-2m78-2p9v.