cve/2016/CVE-2016-8610.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/224
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• 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/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/chnzzh/OpenSSL-CVE-lib
• https://github.com/cujanovic/CVE-2016-8610-PoC