CVE-2009-4355

openssl significant memory leak in certain SSLv3 requests (DoS)

Published Jan 14, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 9.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
Memory leak in the zlib_stateful_finish function in crypto/comp/c_zlib.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8l and earlier and 1.0.0 Beta through Beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors that trigger incorrect calls to the CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data function, as demonstrated by use of SSLv3 and PHP with the Apache HTTP Server, a related issue to CVE-2008-1678.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1970-1 New openssl packages fix denial of service
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-884-1 OpenSSL vulnerability
References
Link Providers
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19068 cve-icon cve-icon
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19069 cve-icon cve-icon
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19167 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038587.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/039561.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127128920008563&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38175 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38181 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38200 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38761 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39461 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42724 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42733 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.663049 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0004 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1970 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:022 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/13/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-884-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0124 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0839 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0916 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546707 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-3157 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4355 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11260 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12168 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6678 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4355 cve-icon
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.22931}

epss

{'score': 0.14534}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:01 AM
Reserved
Dec 18, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 14, 2010, 7:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:13 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jan 13, 2010, 12:00 AM