01 Record

CVE-2015-5291

Heap-based buffer overflow in PolarSSL 1.x before 1.2.17 and 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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in PolarSSL 1.x before 1.2.17 and 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

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 3.65% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 89.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector: No NVD score to derive
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2015-11-02 19:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 06:41Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2015-07-01

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

1ce1da41744b6e1508cc007e89c6719398df0ed0088c3bbb87fe2ab9dbedcdbc

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

debiandebian_linuxNot specified—

fedoraprojectfedoraNot specified—

opensuseleapNot specified—

opensuseopensuseNot specified—

polarsslpolarsslNot specified—

trustedfirmwarembed_tlsNot specified—

06 References

www.debian.orgDSA-3468http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
guidovranken.files.wordpress.comhttps://guidovranken.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/cve-2015-5291.pdfx_refsource_MISC
guidovranken.wordpress.comhttps://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/cve-2015-5291/x_refsource_MISC
lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-30a417bea9http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169625.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-e22bb33731http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170317.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-7f939b3af5http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169765.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
tls.mbed.orghttps://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2015-01x_refsource_CONFIRM
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:2257http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00013.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201706-18https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:2371http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00119.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE