CVE-2016-0797
HIGHEPSS 98th pctlDescription
Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long digit string that is mishandled by the (1) BN_dec2bn or (2) BN_hex2bn function, related to crypto/bn/bn.h and crypto/bn/bn_print.c.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00038.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00019.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145889460330120&w=2
- http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-openssl
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3500
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83763
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035133
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2914-1
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf
- https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c175308407858afff3fc8c2e5e085d94d12edc7d
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03741en_us
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05052990
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40168
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10156
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl.asc
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-15
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt
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