vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-8610): OpenSSL vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Nov 2, 2016 | Feb 1, 2017 | Mar 18, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 2, 2016
Added
Feb 1, 2017
Modified
Mar 18, 2026
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
ubuntu-upgrade-libgnutls30ubuntu-upgrade-libssl1-0-0
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