CVE-2014-3488: DoS by CPU exhaustion when using malicious SSL packets

July 31, 2014 (updated September 30, 2019)

The SslHandler in this package allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted SSLv2Hello message.

References

netty.io/news/2014/06/11/3.html
bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2014-3488
github.com/netty/netty/issues/2562

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