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CVE-2008-1672

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-05-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites," which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected Platforms

Canonical Ubuntu LinuxOpenssl Openssl

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References