CVE-2016-8610
HIGH 7.5EPSS 39.7%
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.
- Affected
- OpenSSL
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 39.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile
- Published
- 2017-11-13
- Updated
- 2024-08-06
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- cujanovic/CVE-2016-8610-PoC33★ · 2016-12-28
Security advisories
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037084
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1658
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2493
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2494
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610
- https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:35.openssl.asc
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0001
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-8610
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03897…
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html