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CVE-2016-8610

OpenSSL / OpenSSL PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
OpenSSL / OpenSSLaffected All 0.9.8; affected All 1.0.1; affected 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h; affected 1.1.0

CWE

CWE-400

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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