VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-1672

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability5.00%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-05-29
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites," which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references