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Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure: CVE-2016-8610: ssl3_read_bytes Function Denial of Service Vulnerability (SA40886)

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Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure: CVE-2016-8610: ssl3_read_bytes Function Denial of Service Vulnerability (SA40886)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/13/2017
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
02/15/2024

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)

  • pulse-secure-pulse-connect-secure-upgrade-8_1r12
  • pulse-secure-pulse-connect-secure-upgrade-8_2r7
  • pulse-secure-pulse-connect-secure-upgrade-8_3r1

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