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.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610 cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037084 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1658 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2493 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2494 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8610 cve-icon
https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:35.openssl.asc cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-8610 cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03897en_us cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8610 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.71356}

epss

{'score': 0.70009}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:40.949Z

Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8610

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-13T22:29:00.203

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-8610

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-10-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-8610 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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