Memory Consumption Vulnerability in OpenSSL 1.1.0

CVE-2016-6307 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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