CVE-2016-8610
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)40%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (3)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.htmlAdvisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037084Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413Advisory