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CVE-2016-8610

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…

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
OpensslOpenssl
from 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h
Versions 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.1.0
DebianDebian Linux
Version 8.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Aus
Versions 7.3, 7.4, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Eus
Versions 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Tus
Versions 7.3, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatJboss Enterprise Application Platform
Versions 6.0.0, 6.4.0
NetappCn1610 Firmware
All versions
NetappClustered Data Ontap Antivirus Connector
All versions
NetappData Ontap
All versions

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