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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8610
DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8610
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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.
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | openssl | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | openssl | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:12 | openssl | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | openssl | 0, 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- CVE-2016-8610 (SSL Death Alert) PoC (github-poc-repo)
Timeline
- Nov 13, 2017 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated