Resource Management Errors Affecting openssl package, versions >=1.0.0, <1.0.108


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
96.37% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-OPENSSL-471309
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed16 May 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 May 2014

CVE-2014-0221  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade OpenSSL to version 1.0.108 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 Resource Management Errors. OpenSSL is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. These attacks can be made using an invalid DTLS handshake causing OpenSSL to go into a recursive loop.

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