Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.1, <1.0.2>=1.0.204.1, <1.0.207


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.93% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471062
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed3 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-0797  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.2, 1.0.207 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. A malicious user can pass a long digit string in hex format to trigger an integer overflow, which can cause heap memory corruption or null pointer dereferences that can cause the system to crash.

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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