A vulnerability in OpenSSL could allow attackers to cause a server’s memory to be exhausted before any security handshake, Okta’s red team discovered.
Referred to as HollowByte, the denial-of-service (DoS) bug could be triggered via a malicious payload of only 11 bytes that declares a larger incoming message body to trigger a buffer pre-allocation that is not immediately freed.
HollowByte existed ...
