CVE-2016-8610

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.

Score
CVSS 3.1 7.5 High
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2017-11-13
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

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