Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-019

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-019 – A carefully crafted DTLS message can cause a segmentation fault in OpenSSL due to a NULL pointer dereference. This could lead to a Denial Of Service attack. A memory leak can occur in the dtls1_buffer_record function under certain conditions. In particular this could occur if an attacker sent repeated DTLS records with the same sequence number but for the next epoch. The memory leak could be exploited by an attacker in a Denial of Service attack through memory exhaustion. Various other issues have also been addressed. The updated packages have been upgraded to the 1.0.0p version where these security flaws has been fixed.

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