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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2016-8610)

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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2016-8610)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/13/2017
Created
11/23/2019
Added
11/14/2019
Modified
02/14/2023

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)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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