CVE-2009-1379 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 18.2% (pctl 97)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the dtls1_retrieve_buffered_fragment function in ssl/d1_both.c in OpenSSL 1.0.0 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (openssl s_client crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a DTLS packet, as demonstrated by a packet from a server that uses a crafted server certificate.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 18.24% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-399 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2009-05-19 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| openssl | openssl |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | OpenSSL 0.9.8k/1.0.0-beta2 - DTLS Remote Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service | 2009-05-18 |
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-009.txt.asc
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02029444
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
- http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1923&user=guest&pass=guest
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35416
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35461
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35571
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35729
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36533
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37003
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38761
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38834
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42724
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42733
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200912-01.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.663049
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4AD43807.7080105%40users.sourceforge.net
- http://voodoo-circle.sourceforge.net/sa/sa-20091012-01.html
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