CVE-2016-8610
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2016
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
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.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
OpenSSL
- Vendor
- OpenSSL
- Product
- OpenSSL
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
Unknown
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All 0.9.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| All 1.0.1 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1.1.0 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |