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CVE-2016-2179

Description

It was found that current mechanism of queuing the future messages, i.e. messages having greater sequence numbers that are to be processed later, is prone to DoS attack by memory exhaustion, when attacker can fill up the queue with lots of large messages that are never going to be used. Only up to 10 messages in the future can be buffered and queue gets cleared when the connection is closed, thus attacker can exploit this only with opening many simultaneous connections.

Priority: MEDIUM
CVSS v3: 7.5
Component: openssl
Publish Date: Sep 9, 2016
Related ID: --
CVSS v2: High
Modified Date: Sep 9, 2016

Find out more about CVE-2016-2179 from the MITRE-CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


Products Affected

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Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads
Linux
Wind River Linux LTS 17 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 8 Fixed LIN8-4616
8.0.0.10 --
Wind River Linux 9 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 7 Fixed -- 7.0.0.20 --
Wind River Linux LTS 21 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 22 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 18 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux LTS 19 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux CD release Not Vulnerable -- -- --
Wind River Linux 6 Fixed -- 6.0.0.31 --
Wind River Linux LTS 23 Not Vulnerable -- -- --
VxWorks
VxWorks 7 Fixed -- openSSL-1.1.0.0 --
VxWorks 6.9 Fixed -- 6.9.4.9 --
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition
Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition Not Vulnerable -- -- --

Related Products

Product Name Status Defect Fixed Downloads

Notes
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