A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 13, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 20, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 13, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 13, 2022
Last updated
Feb 20, 2023
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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