CVE-2015-5291
mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.037 · 90 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Heap-based buffer overflow in PolarSSL 1.x before 1.2.17 and 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 hostname to the server name indication (SNI) extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges. See CVE-2015-8036 for the session ticket issue that was introduced in 1.3.0.
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affected products (11)
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references (24)
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- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.htmlcnnvd
- https://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cve-2015-5291.pdfcnnvd
- https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/cnnvd
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01cnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170317.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169765.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00013.htmlenisa_euvd
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