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FreeBSD: VID-0FCD3AF0-A0FE-11E6-B1CF-14DAE9D210B8 (CVE-2016-8610): FreeBSD -- OpenSSL Remote DoS vulnerability

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FreeBSD: VID-0FCD3AF0-A0FE-11E6-B1CF-14DAE9D210B8 (CVE-2016-8610): FreeBSD -- OpenSSL Remote DoS vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2016
Modified
05/07/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-base-10_1-release-p42
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-10_2-release-p25
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-10_3-release-p12
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-9_3-release-p50
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-linux-c6-openssl
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-linux-c7-openssl-libs
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssl
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssl-devel

References

  • DLA-814-1
  • DSA-3773
  • CVE-2016-8610
  • USN-3181-1
  • USN-3183-1
  • USN-3183-2

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