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OpenSSL Silently Fixes ‘HollowByte’ DoS Vulnerability
Attackers could send waves of malicious payloads to trigger buffer pre-allocations that are not freed, exhausting server memory.
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A recent update to OpenSSL has addressed a denial-of-service vulnerability known as 'HollowByte'. This issue allowed attackers to potentially exhaust server memory by sending malicious payloads that triggered buffer pre-allocations that were not subsequently freed.
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