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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112922
Category:Denial of Service
Title:OpenSSL: DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2004-0079) - Windows
Summary:OpenSSL is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
OpenSSL is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
There is a null-pointer assignment in the do_change_cipher_spec() function.

Vulnerability Impact:
A remote attacker could perform a carefully crafted SSL/TLS
handshake against a server that used the OpenSSL library in such a way as to cause a crash.

Affected Software/OS:
OpenSSL 0.9.6c through 0.9.6l and 0.9.7 through 0.9.7c.

Solution:
Update to version 0.9.6m, 0.9.7d or later. See the references for
more details.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0079
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
BugTraq ID: 9899
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9899
Bugtraq: 20040317 New OpenSSL releases fix denial of service attacks [17 March 2004] (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107953412903636&w=2
Cert/CC Advisory: TA04-078A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-078A.html
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#288574
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/288574
Computer Incident Advisory Center Bulletin: O-101
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-101.shtml
Cisco Security Advisory: 20040317 Cisco OpenSSL Implementation Vulnerability
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040317-openssl.shtml
Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2004:834
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000834
Debian Security Information: DSA-465 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-465
En Garde Linux Advisory: ESA-20040317-003
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-4135.html
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-095.shtml
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-October/msg00087.html
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-04:05
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:05.openssl.asc
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200403-03.xml
HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT4717
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108403806509920&w=2
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:023
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/224012/index.htm
NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2004-005
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-005.txt.asc
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2621
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5770
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A870
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A975
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9779
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-120.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-121.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-139.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-829.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-830.html
SCO Security Bulletin: SCOSA-2004.10
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2004.10/SCOSA-2004.10.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/11139
http://secunia.com/advisories/17381
http://secunia.com/advisories/17398
http://secunia.com/advisories/17401
http://secunia.com/advisories/18247
http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.455961
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57524
SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2004:007 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_07_openssl.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0012
XForce ISS Database: openssl-dochangecipherspec-dos(15505)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15505
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