CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-2181 — Openssl Openssl security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.0)
Published
2016-09-16
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Affected products

  • openssl / openssl / 1.0.1
  • openssl / openssl / 1.0.1a
  • openssl / openssl / 1.0.1b
  • openssl / openssl / 1.0.1c
  • openssl / openssl / 1.0.1d
  • openssl / openssl / 1.0.1e

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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