CVE-2016-8610: 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…

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• OpenSSL OpenSSL

  • All 0.9.8, All 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, 1.1.0affected

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• paloaltonetworks pan-osup to 6.1.17 inclusive
• paloaltonetworks pan-os7.0.0 and later · up to 7.0.15 inclusive
• paloaltonetworks pan-os7.1.0 and later · up to 7.1.10 inclusive

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2014-0160The (1) TLS and (2) DTLS implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1g do not properly handle Heartbeat Extension packets, which allows…KEV
  90Now
• CVE-2021-3711SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow
  65This week
• CVE-2003-0545Double free vulnerability in OpenSSL 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code…
  65This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2017-3735Aug 28, 2017 · While parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate, it is possible to do a one-byte overread.
  27Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2017-3736Nov 2, 2017 · There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g.
  29Monitor
• Later →CVE-2017-3737Dec 7, 2017 · OpenSSL 1.0.2 (starting from version 1.0.2b) introduced an "error state" mechanism.
  47Plan

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.