CVE-2016-8610

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
OpenSSLOpenSSLAll 0.9.8affected
OpenSSLOpenSSLAll 1.0.1affected
OpenSSLOpenSSL1.0.2 through 1.0.2haffected
OpenSSLOpenSSL1.1.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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