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FKIE_CVE-2015-5291

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-11-02 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:28
Severity
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in PolarSSL 1.x before 1.2.17 and 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 hostname to the server name indication (SNI) extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges. See CVE-2015-8036 for the session ticket issue that was introduced in 1.3.0.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170317.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169765.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00119.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cve-2015-5291.pdfThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170317.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169765.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00119.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cve-2015-5291.pdfThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
polarssl polarssl *
trustedfirmware mbed_tls *
trustedfirmware mbed_tls *
debian debian_linux 7.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
fedoraproject fedora 21
fedoraproject fedora 22
fedoraproject fedora 23
opensuse leap 42.1
opensuse opensuse 13.2
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