Medium 4.3Published May 29, 2008

CVE-2008-1672OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites," which trigge…

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OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites," which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS: 4.3 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

openssl openssl openssl:openssl	0.9.8f; 0.9.8g	NVD
canonical ubuntu_linux canonical:ubuntu_linux	8.04	NVD

References

References

http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30405	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30460	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30825	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30852	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30868	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31228	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31288	third-party-advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml	third-party-advisory
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004	third-party-advisory
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