CVE-2014-2899
wolfSSL CyaSSL before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via (1) a request for the peer certificate when a certificate parsing failure occurs or (2) a client_key_exchange message when the ephemeral key is not found.
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EPSS
Probability of exploitation (next 30 days): 0.0088 (0.9%)
Percentile: 75.4%
EPSS: 2026-05-06
Affects
yassl:cyasslTechnical description
wolfSSL CyaSSL before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via (1) a request for the peer certificate when a certificate parsing failure occurs or (2) a client_key_exchange message when the ephemeral key is not found.
Published: 4/22/2014, 2:23:36 PM
Last modified: 5/6/2026, 10:30:45 PM
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/126
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/130
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57743
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66780
- http://www.wolfssl.com/yaSSL/Blog/Entries/2014/4/11_wolfSSL_Security_Advisory__April_9%2C_2014.html
- http://www.wolfssl.com/yaSSL/Docs-cyassl-changelog.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-53
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/126