Resource Exhaustion Affecting openssl package, versions <1:1.0.1e-60.el7_3.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-OPENSSL-4674494
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 24 Oct 2016
Introduced: 24 Oct 2016
CVE-2016-8610 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 openssl to version 1:1.0.1e-60.el7_3.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:0286.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl package and not the openssl 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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401
- 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-hpesbhf03897en_us
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8610
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:35.openssl.asc
- https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/
- 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
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- 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
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0286
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037084
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401