Resource Exhaustion Affecting gnutls-devel package, versions <0:2.12.23-21.el6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
28.39% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-GNUTLSDEVEL-2138366
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Oct 2016

Introduced: 24 Oct 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:6 gnutls-devel to version 0:2.12.23-21.el6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls-devel package and not the gnutls-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 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.

CVSS Scores

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