CVE-2014-9744

high
Published 2015-08-24 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Memory leak in PolarSSL before 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of ClientHello messages. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2014-8628 per ADT3 due to different affected versions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://polarssl.org/tech-updates/releases/polarssl-1.3.9-released

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
polarsslpolarssl{"endIncluding":"1.3.8"}

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.