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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2019-01-21 | |
| Rule Name: | Openssl SSL3_AL_WARNING Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-8610) | |
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| Description: | 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: | An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully. | |
| Affected OS: | Other Unix, FreeBSD, Linux | |
| Reference: | SecurityFocusBID:93841 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.html |
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| More advisories have been published on the website, please visit for more suggestions: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git |