Denial of service in Oracle products - CVE-2016-6306

 

Denial of service in Oracle products - CVE-2016-6306

Published: October 10, 2016 / Updated: April 26, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU816
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6306
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenSSL Software Foundation
Oracle
Affected software:
OpenSSL
Oracle Solaris
Oracle Linux
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Oracle VM Server for x86

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to cause DoS conditions on the target system.
The weakess exists due insufficient length validation of certain TLS/SSL protocol handshake messages. By causing out-of-bounds read error attackers can trigger the affected service deny.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability will result in denial of service on the vulnerable system.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6306

Update 1.0.1 to version 1.0.1i.
Update 1.0.2 to version 1.0.2u.

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