| Name | CVE-2015-8036 |
| Description | Heap-based buffer overflow in ARM mbed TLS (formerly PolarSSL) 1.3.x before 1.3.14 and 2.x before 2.1.2 allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long session ticket name to the session ticket extension, which is not properly handled when creating a ClientHello message to resume a session. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2015-5291 per ADT3 due to different affected version ranges. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3468-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mbedtls (PTS) | buster | 2.16.0-1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.16.9-0~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.16.9-0.1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.28.3-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.28.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
- mbedtls <not-affected> (Fixed before the initial release to Debian)
[wheezy] - polarssl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[squeeze] - polarssl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
support for session tickets added in 1.3.0.
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01