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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2016-6304)

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Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 26, 2016
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of Service attack through memory exhaustion. Servers with a default configuration are vulnerable even if they do not support OCSP. Builds using the "no-ocsp" build time option are not affected.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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