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.
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DLA-814-1 | openssl security update |
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DSA-3773-1 | openssl security update |
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USN-3181-1 | OpenSSL vulnerabilities |
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USN-3183-1 | GnuTLS vulnerabilities |
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USN-3183-2 | GnuTLS vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T02:27:40.949Z
Reserved: 2016-10-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-8610

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-11-13T22:29:00.203
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2016-8610


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