Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.0, <1.0.201
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- published 2 Oct 2019
- disclosed 18 Nov 2014
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 18 Nov 2014
CVE-2015-0289 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade OpenSSL
to version 1.0.201 or higher.
Overview
OpenSSL is a SSL/TLS and Crypto toolkit. Deprecated in Mac OS and gone in iOS, this spec gives your project non-deprecated OpenSSL support.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). OpenSSL is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. These attacks are possible because the PKCS#7 implementation doesn't correctly handle a lack of outer ContentInfo. This flaw allows attackers to cause null pointer dereferences and applications crashes through malformed data with ASN.1 encoding.
Details
Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.
Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.
One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.
When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.
Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:
High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.
Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm
ws
package
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