CVE-2015-5291

PolarSSL <1.2.17, ARM mbed TLS <1.3.14, <2.1.2 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170317.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169765.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00013.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00119.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0205
EPSS Percentile 84.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (9)
arm/mbed_tls 1.3.0 - 1.3.14
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
fedoraproject/fedora 21
fedoraproject/fedora 22
fedoraproject/fedora 23
opensuse/leap 42.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
polarssl/polarssl 1.0.0 - 1.2.17
Published Nov 02, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026