ubuntu · CVE-2016-8610

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Priority: low Published: 2016-10-24 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:12:08 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8610 low priority: Ubuntu including 4 source packages (gnutls26, gnutls28, openssl, openssl098), 40 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 16, released 13, not-affected 5, needs-triage 4, ignored 2.

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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