vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-8610: Moderate: openssl security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 2, 2016
Added
Feb 24, 2017
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-gnutlsredhat-upgrade-gnutls-debuginforedhat-upgrade-gnutls-develredhat-upgrade-gnutls-guileredhat-upgrade-gnutls-utilsredhat-upgrade-opensslredhat-upgrade-openssl-debuginforedhat-upgrade-openssl-develredhat-upgrade-openssl-libsredhat-upgrade-openssl-perlredhat-upgrade-openssl-static

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