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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6302: openssl Multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6302: openssl Multiple issues

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
07/16/2018

Description

The tls_decrypt_ticket function in ssl/t1_lib.c in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 does not consider the HMAC size during validation of the ticket length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a ticket that is too short.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openssl

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