National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0027

Overview

The GOST ENGINE in OpenSSL before 1.0.0f does not properly handle invalid parameters for the GOST block cipher, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted data from a TLS client.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:007

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:007

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 78191

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/78191

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0083

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00017.html

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT100877

Hyperlink:http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBMU02786

Hyperlink:http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041