CVE-2014-8628
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8
Description
Memory leak in PolarSSL before 1.2.12 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted X.509 certificates. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions. See CVE-2014-9744 for the ClientHello message issue.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00079.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3116
- https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.2.12-released
- https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.3.9-released
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00079.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3116
- https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.2.12-released
- https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.3.9-released
CWEs
CWE-399
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.