National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2006-3738
Orirignal release date: 2006-09-28
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    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.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7.0 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: avail,conf,int,sec_prot user="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    OpenSSL (OpenSSL Project)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3738