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OpenSSL SSL Death Alert (CVE-2016-8610)

Posted Under: OpenSSL on Dec 16, 2016
OpenSSL SSL Death Alert (CVE-2016-8610)
OpenSSL's SSL Death Alert is a denial of service (DoS) attack. This happens because of the way how OpenSSL handles ALERT packets during an SSL/TLS handshake.