CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6307

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2016-09-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-09-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

The state-machine implementation in OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0a allocates memory before checking for an excessive length, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted TLS messages, related to statem/statem.c and statem/statem_lib.c.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl 1.1.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References