CVE-2016-8610

CVE Details

Release Date:

2016-10-24

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

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	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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