CVE-2015-5291 (GCVE-0-2015-5291)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-02 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
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Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in PolarSSL 1.x before 1.2.17 and ARM mbed TLS (formerly PolarSSL) 1.3.x before 1.3.14 and 2.x before 2.1.2 allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long hostname to the server name indication (SNI) extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges. See CVE-2015-8036 for the session ticket issue that was introduced in 1.3.0.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1131 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-10-05 00:00
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      "initial_release_date": "2015-10-05T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "polarssl: mbedtls: crash or remote code execution on clients using session tickets or SNI",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2015/cve-2015-5291.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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