OpenSSL 0.9.8f and 0.9.8g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a TLS handshake that omits the Server Key Exchange message and uses "particular cipher suites," which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1672
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42667
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg01029.html
• http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-openssl.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30405
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30460
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30825
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30852
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30868
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31228
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31288
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-08.xml
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.562004
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615606
• http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=738400
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520586
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:107
• http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20080528.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492932/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29405
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020122
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-620-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1680
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1937/references