Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201686100000000
Revision Date:2017-11-13Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-8610 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-8610
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • gnutls28 package in cosmic, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '3.5.6-4ubuntu2').
  • OR openssl package in cosmic was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '1.0.2g-1ubuntu11').
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