CVE-2010-0740: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 20.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ssl3_get_record function in ssl/s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed record in a TLS connection that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, related to the minor version number. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: version 0.9.8f only; version 0.9.8g only; version 0.9.8h only; version 0.9.8i only; version 0.9.8j only; version 0.9.8k only; …

Published 2010-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.