CVE-2016-8610
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 13, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2016
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
OpenSSLOpenSSL |
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References
- 93841vdb-entry
- RHSA-2017:1659vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1658vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1801vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0286vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1413vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:2494vendor-advisory
- FreeBSD-SA-16:35vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1414vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20161024 CVE-2016-8610: SSL Death Alert: OpenSSL SSL/TLS SSL3_AL_WARNING undefined alert Remote DoSmailing-list
- RHSA-2017:0574vendor-advisory
- DSA-3773vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1415vendor-advisory
- 1037084vdb-entry
- RHSA-2017:1802vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:2493vendor-advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0001/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401
- https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03897en_us
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-8610
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
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