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CentOS: (CVE-2016-6302) CESA-2016:1940: openssl

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 16, 2016
Added
Oct 21, 2016
Modified
May 5, 2019

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.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-opensslcentos-upgrade-openssl-develcentos-upgrade-openssl-libscentos-upgrade-openssl-perlcentos-upgrade-openssl-static
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