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Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure: CVE-2016-6307: September 22 2016 OpenSSL Security Advisory (SA40312)

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Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure: CVE-2016-6307: September 22 2016 OpenSSL Security Advisory (SA40312)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/26/2016
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
02/15/2024

Description

The state-machine implementation in OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0a allocates memory before checking for an excessive length, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted TLS messages, related to statem/statem.c and statem/statem_lib.c.

Solution(s)

  • pulse-secure-pulse-connect-secure-upgrade-8_1r11
  • pulse-secure-pulse-connect-secure-upgrade-8_1r11_1
  • pulse-secure-pulse-connect-secure-upgrade-8_2r6

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