UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8610

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8610

    Published: 24 Oct 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-8610

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8610, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/24/3, http://security.360.cn/cve/CVE-2016-8610/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3181-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3183-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3183-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8610

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnutls26

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.12.23-12ubuntu2.7

    Affected versions

    2.12.23-1ubuntu4
    2.12.23-1ubuntu5
    2.12.23-12ubuntu1
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.2
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.3
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.4
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.5
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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