Resource Exhaustion Affecting jbcs-httpd24-httpd-manual package, versions <0:2.4.23-120.jbcs.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
52.11% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-JBCSHTTPD24HTTPDMANUAL-3630877
  • 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 RHEL:7 jbcs-httpd24-httpd-manual to version 0:2.4.23-120.jbcs.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1413.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbcs-httpd24-httpd-manual package and not the jbcs-httpd24-httpd-manual package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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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