description: A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.
problem types: CWE-400
affected:
{
product: OpenSSL
vendor: OpenSSL
versions:
status: affected, version: All 0.9.8
status: affected, version: All 1.0.1
status: affected, version: 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h
status: affected, version: 1.1.0
}