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openssl: uninitialized SSL 3.0 padding

Published Jan 6, 2012

Description

The SSL 3.0 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8s and 1.x before 1.0.0f does not properly initialize data structures for block cipher padding, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by decrypting the padding data sent by an SSL peer.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (26)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Jan 6, 2012
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 29, 2011
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jan 4, 2012