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OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

The Hacker News • • Okta

Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that ...

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