Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2014-1892 |
Date Published: | 7 Oct 2014 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Sunday 28 December, 2014 |
Source: | OpenSSL |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2014-3507 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | OpenSSL Project OpenSSL prior to 1.0.1i |
Vulnerability Description | A denial of service vulnerability exists in OpenSSL. The vulnerability is due to memory leak in dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message function. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted messages to a target. Successful exploitation could lead to a denial of service condition. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: SSL Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: OpenSSL dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message Denial of Service