CVE-2015-8036

medium
Published 2015-11-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 session ticket name to the session ticket extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message to resume a session. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2015-5291 per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8036

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
suse suse13.2affected
fedora fedora21affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
armmbed_tls{"startIncluding":"1.3.0","endExcluding":"1.3.14"}1.3.14
polarsslpolarssl{"endIncluding":"1.2.17"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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