Resource Exhaustion Affecting gnutls-debuginfo package, versions <0:2.12.23-21.18.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
28.39% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-GNUTLSDEBUGINFO-1705127
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed13 Nov 2017

Introduced: 13 Nov 2017

CVE-2016-8610  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 gnutls-debuginfo to version 0:2.12.23-21.18.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2017-815.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls-debuginfo package and not the gnutls-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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