Bug 1127500 (CVE-2014-3506)

Summary: CVE-2014-3506 openssl: DTLS memory exhaustion
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrew Griffiths <agriffit>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: aavati, abaron, alonbl, aneelica, aortega, apevec, ayoung, bazulay, bmcclain, bressers, cdewolf, cfergeau, chazlett, chrisw, dallan, dandread, darran.lofthouse, dblechte, dgregor, dknox, ecohen, erik-fedora, fdeutsch, fnasser, gkotton, huwang, idith, iheim, jason.greene, jawilson, jclere, jdoyle, jgreguske, jrusnack, ktietz, lfarkas, lgao, lhh, lpeer, lsurette, markmc, myarboro, nlevinki, pgier, pslavice, pstehlik, rbalakri, rbryant, rfortier, rhs-bugs, rh-spice-bugs, rjones, rsvoboda, sclewis, shaines, smohan, ssaha, tmraz, vbellur, vtunka, weli, ycui, yeylon
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: openssl 1.0.1i, openssl 1.0.0n, openssl 0.9.8zb Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A flaw was discovered in the way OpenSSL handled DTLS packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a DTLS server or client using OpenSSL to crash or use excessive amounts of memory.
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Last Closed: 2014-09-24 17:43:27 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1127695, 1127696, 1127697, 1127698, 1127704, 1127705, 1127709, 1127831, 1127832, 1127885, 1128013, 1128014, 1128015, 1128016, 1128405, 1128406, 1128961, 1181611    
Bug Blocks: 1127468, 1127506, 1138223, 1142543    

Description Andrew Griffiths 2014-08-07 02:03:52 UTC
A vulnerability in the processing of DTLS handshake messages was found that results in large amounts of memory being used. Once the Denial Of Service attack has ceased, the memory will be freed.

Comment 1 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-08-07 05:52:39 UTC
External References:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-07 11:32:37 UTC
Created openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1127704]

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-07 11:32:43 UTC
Created mingw-openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1127705]

Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-07 11:39:06 UTC
Created mingw-openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1127709]

Comment 10 Tomas Hoger 2014-08-07 18:35:40 UTC
Created mingw32-openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1127885]

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2014-08-09 07:34:32 UTC
openssl-1.0.1e-39.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2014-08-09 07:35:41 UTC
openssl-1.0.1e-39.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Martin Prpič 2014-08-12 07:42:43 UTC
IssueDescription:

A flaw was discovered in the way OpenSSL handled DTLS packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a DTLS server or client using OpenSSL to crash or use excessive amounts of memory.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2014-08-13 18:19:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1053 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1053.html

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2014-08-13 21:33:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:1052 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1052.html

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2014-08-14 04:45:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Storage 2.1

Via RHSA-2014:1054 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1054.html

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-17 16:31:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Web Server 2.1.0

Via RHSA-2014:1256 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1256.html

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-24 16:54:24 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3.0

Via RHSA-2014:1297 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1297.html