Die OpenSSL-Maintainer haben stillschweigend eine Denial-of-Service-Lücke geschlossen. Okta nennt sie „HollowByte“.

A vulnerability dubbed HollowByte allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on OpenSSL servers with a malicious payload of just 11 bytes.

OpenSSL fixed HollowByte after 11-byte TLS requests could strand memory on glibc systems, but shipped no CVE, advisory, or changelog note.