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CVE-2016-8610

Date: November 13, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (33)

Url: https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

Url: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8610

Url: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html

Url: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03897en_us

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8610

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2494

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2493

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0001/

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.html

Url: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-8610

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414

Url: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1658

Url: https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:35.openssl.asc

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037084

Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8610

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801

Url: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8610

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-8610

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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Date: November 13, 2017

Language: C

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