CVE-2014-3571: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted DTLS message that is processed with a different read operation for the handshake header than for the handshake body, related to the dtls1_get_record function in d1_pkt.c and the ssl3_read_n function in s3_pkt.c.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8zc; version 1.0.0a only; version 1.0.0b only; version 1.0.0c only; version 1.0.0d only; version 1.0.0e only; …

Published 2015-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.