Name | CVE-2016-8610 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-814-1, DSA-3773-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
openssl (PTS) | bullseye | 1.1.1w-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
bullseye (security) | 1.1.1w-0+deb11u2 | fixed | |
bookworm | 3.0.15-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
bookworm (security) | 3.0.14-1~deb12u2 | fixed | |
trixie, sid | 3.3.2-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
openssl | source | wheezy | 1.0.1t-1+deb7u2 | DLA-814-1 | ||
openssl | source | jessie | 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6 | DSA-3773-1 | ||
openssl | source | (unstable) | 1.0.2j-1 |
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/24/3
Fixed by: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=af58be768ebb690f78530f796e92b8ae5c9a4401
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384743 mentions countermeasures in gnutls
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/1ffb827e45721ef56982d0ffd5c5de52376c428e