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CVE-2014-8628 (GCVE-0-2014-8628)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-24 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:26
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2014-10-22 00:00
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