CYBERSECURITYTRACKER
TRACKING6,506 stories in this site build1,309 vulnerability news stories in this site build
Permanent story citation

OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability

This page keeps the story as Cybersecurity Tracker first published it. If the tracker later corrects it, the correction appears below the original and never replaces it.

Back to newsStory 2828

As cited

Copy frozen at (site build).

vulnerabilities

OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability

OpenSSL addressed a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability, dubbed 'HollowByte', that allowed attackers to trigger unfreed buffer allocations and exhaust server memory through malicious payloads. The fix was released without prominent disclosure or fanfare.

Why it matters: OpenSSL maintainers and operators running affected versions need to identify and apply this patch to prevent memory exhaustion attacks against their services.

Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Correction

Correction recorded as of .

vulnerabilities

OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability

OpenSSL addressed a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability, dubbed 'HollowByte', that allowed attackers to trigger unfreed buffer allocations and exhaust server memory through malicious payloads. The fix was released without prominent disclosure or fanfare.

Why it matters: OpenSSL maintainers and operators running affected versions need to identify and apply this patch to prevent memory exhaustion attacks against their services.

VendorsOpenSSL
Source published
First seen by Cybersecurity Tracker

Source attribution

Glossary