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CVE-2016-8610 Detail

Description

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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0286.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0574.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1415.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93841 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037084 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1413 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1658 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2493 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2494 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8610 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:35.openssl.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171130-0001/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-8610 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03897en_us CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe source acceptance level NIST   Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-8610
NVD Published Date:
11/13/2017
NVD Last Modified:
04/19/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.