K16123 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2014-3571

Security Advisory Description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted DTLS message that is processed with a different read operation for the handshake header than for the handshake body, related to the dtls1_get_record function in d1_pkt.c and the ssl3_read_n function in s3_pkt.c. (CVE-2014-3571)

Impact

Remote attackers may be able to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by way of a crafted DTLS message.