K15461 : OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2011-4619

Security Advisory Description

The Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8s and 1.x before 1.0.0f does not properly handle handshake restarts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2011-4619)

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, and have other unspecified impact on the system.