VYPR
High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 13, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-8610

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.

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