CVE-2016-8610
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2016-10-24 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2through 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.
See more information about CVE-2016-8610 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.3 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (gnutls) | ELSA-2017-0574 | 2017-03-27 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (openssl) | ELSA-2017-0286 | 2017-02-20 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (openssl) | ELSA-2017-0286 | 2017-02-20 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (gnutls) | OVMSA-2017-0054 | 2017-03-29 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (openssl) | OVMSA-2017-0042 | 2017-02-21 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (gnutls) | OVMSA-2017-0054 | 2017-03-29 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (openssl) | OVMSA-2017-0042 | 2017-02-21 |
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