CVE-2016-6308
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 14%
exploitation probability
14%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
statem/statem_dtls.c in the DTLS 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 DTLS messages.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
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