Sunday, November 21, 2010

OpenSSL: denial of service, arbitrary code execution Vulnerability

Users of OpenSSL please be advised of a denial of service, arbitrary code execution vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-1018-1: [USN-1018-1] OpenSSL vulnerability
Details follow:



Rob Hulswit discovered a race condition in the OpenSSL TLS server

extension parsing code when used within a threaded server. A remote

attacker could trigger this flaw to cause a denial of service

or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges.

(CVE-2010-3864)
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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