Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting openssl-static package, versions >=1.0.2.a, <1.0.2.c
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- published 20 Nov 2019
- disclosed 17 Feb 2015
- credit Oracle
Introduced: 17 Feb 2015
CVE-2015-1789 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade OpenSSL-Static
to version 1.0.2.c or higher.
Overview
OpenSSL-Static is a OpenSSL Static Libraries and CocoaPod for iOS and OSX. Please note that this package has reached EOL. You will no longer be able to download this package.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS).
via the length field in ASN1_TIME
data, which creates an out-of-bounds read.
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
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package