CVE-2010-5298
Race condition in the ssl3_read_bytes function in s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL through 1.0.1g, when SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject data across sessions or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and parsing error) via an SSL connection in a multithreaded environment.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 34.1% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-5257)
- Published
- April 14, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-5257 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- mariadb / mariadb
- openssl / openssl
- suse / linux enterprise desktop
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise software development kit
- suse / linux enterprise workstation extension
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 12 - SUSE LLC - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0962-2016 - archived
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0187.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.5/common/004_openssl.patch.sig(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10629(Third Party Advisory)
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB29195(Permissions Required)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136470.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136473.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00016.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140389274407904&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140389355508263&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140431828824371&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140448122410568&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140544599631400&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140621259019789&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140752315422991&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140904544427729&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141658880509699&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/13/1(Mailing List, Patch)
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58337(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58713(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58939(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58977(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59162(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59287(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59300(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59301(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59342(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59413(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59437(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59438(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59440(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59450(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59490(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59655(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59666(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59669(Not Applicable)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59721(Not Applicable)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-05.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX140876(Third Party Advisory)
- http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/security/openssl/files/patch-ssl-s3_pkt.c?revision=351191&view=markup(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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