Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6307
5.9
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
September 26, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory