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CVE-2008-1672 (GCVE-0-2008-1672)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-29 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:32
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-open… x_refsource_MISC
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30852 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTND… x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/30460 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/30825 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492932/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/30868 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?rele… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/31288 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/30405 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020122 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937… vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
Date Public
2008-05-28 00:00
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      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:16:13+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2008-1672",
      "id": "CVE-2008-1672",
      "initial_release_date": "2008-05-28T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "openssl: Omit Server Key Exchange message crash",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2008/cve-2008-1672.json",
      "version": "3"
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    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "low",
      "current_release_date": "2026-09-09T00:50:47Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2008-1672",
      "id": "CVE-2008-1672",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:08:39Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "658",
      "product_status:recommended": "67",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2008-1672",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2008-1672.json",
      "version": "23"
    }
  }
}



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