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CVE-2006-3738
published 2006-09-28

CVE-2006-3738: Buffer overflow in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers function in OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions has unspecified impact and…

PriorityP353critical10CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCCICAC
EPSS
48.58%
98.7th percentile
Buffer overflow in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers function in OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors involving a long list of ciphers.

Affected

30 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianopenssl< openssl 0.9.8c-2 (bookworm)openssl 0.9.8c-2 (bookworm)
debianopenssl< openssl 0.9.8e-9 (bookworm)openssl 0.9.8e-9 (bookworm)
opensslopenssl
opensslopenssl
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opensslopenssl
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opensslopenssl>= 0 < 0.9.8c-20.9.8c-2
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 0.9.8e-90.9.8e-9
opensslopenssl>= 0 < 0.9.8c-20.9.8c-2

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

urlhttp://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-06:23/openssl.patch
urlhttp://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-06:23/openssl-correction.patch
pathsrc/crypto/openssl/ssl/ssl_lib.c
pathsrc/crypto/openssl/ssl/s3_srvr.c
  • Target applications using SSL_get_shared_ciphers() — specifically Exim, MySQL, and the openssl CLI — for exploitation attempts involving an oversized cipher list in the SSL/TLS handshake.
  • Monitor for SSL/TLS handshake packets containing an abnormally long list of ciphers, which is the attack vector for triggering the buffer overflow in SSL_get_shared_ciphers().
  • The vulnerability is in ssl_lib.c (SSL_get_shared_ciphers function); patch or monitor changes to this file in OpenSSL versions 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l and 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d.
  • Note that the fix for CVE-2006-3738 introduced a follow-on off-by-one vulnerability (CVE-2007-5135) in SSL_get_shared_ciphers(); verify patched versions are updated to at least 0.9.7l / 0.9.8d and subsequently to 0.9.8f+ with the CVE-2007-5135 fix.
  • ·Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ships a backported patch and is not vulnerable, so version-based detection alone may produce false positives on RHEL5 systems.
  • ·Cisco ASA/PIX/FWSM contain the OpenSSL libraries but do not use the vulnerable SSL_get_shared_ciphers() code path, so these devices are not exploitable despite containing the library.
  • ·The attack impact and exact remote attack vectors are described as 'unspecified' in the CVE; exploitation depends on whether the target application calls SSL_get_shared_ciphers() with attacker-controlled input.

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.010.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
osv10.0CRITICAL
vendor_debian10.0LOW
vendor_redhat10.0CRITICAL
vendor_cisco7.8HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.8HIGH
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