Critical Vulnerability in Facebook Fizz TLS: DoS Exploit Discovered

Researchers have found a vulnerability in the open-source Facebook Fizz project which is relatively easy to trigger for the purposes of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

Facebook Fizz is an open-source TLS 1.3 library written in C++ 14. TLS is one of the newer encryption standards for the Internet available and has been designed to be the successor to SSL. TLS implements stronger encryption standards and also has removed support for older, less secure algorithms.

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