CVE-2008-1678 Information

Description

Memory leak in the zlib_stateful_init function in crypto/comp/c_zlib.c in libssl in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via multiple calls as demonstrated by initial SSL client handshakes to the Apache HTTP Server mod_ssl that specify a compression algorithm.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222643 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=121060672602371&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/31026 http://secunia.com/advisories/31416 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://secunia.com/advisories/34219 http://secunia.com/advisories/35264 http://secunia.com/advisories/38761 http://secunia.com/advisories/42724 http://secunia.com/advisories/42733 http://secunia.com/advisories/44183 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-06.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3981 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.663049 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=654119 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:124 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1075.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31692 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-731-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/186339 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/224945 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447268 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43948 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44975 https://kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9754 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00055.html