Heap-based buffer overflow in ARM mbed TLS (formerly PolarSSL) 1.3.x...
Vulnerability Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in ARM mbed TLS (formerly PolarSSL) 1.3.x before 1.3.14 and 2.x before 2.1.2 allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long session ticket name to the session ticket extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message to resume a session. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2015-5291 per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges.
Impact Analysis
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References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468
- https://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cve-2015-5291.pdf
- https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.html
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00009.html
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