CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It affects OpenSSL. Its EPSS score suggests a 20.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2010-0740
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
20.35%
OpenSSL
Original NVD Description
The ssl3_get_record function in ssl/s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8m allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed record in a TLS connection that triggers a NULL pointer dereference, related to the minor version number. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.