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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2010-0740

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

The "ssl3_get_record" function in "ssl/s3_pkt.c" in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed record in a TLS connection that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, related to the minor version number. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published