CVE-2014-4911: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ssl_decrypt_buf function in library/ssl_tls.c in PolarSSL before 1.2.11 and 1.3.x before 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the GCM ciphersuites, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon Defensics toolkit.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Polarssl Polarssl: version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.3 only; version 1.3.4 only; version 1.3.5 only; …

Published 2014-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.