CVE-2016-0797

high

Published 2016-03-03 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.0.2g-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.0.2g-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.0.2g-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.0.2g-1`
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.0.2g-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1a`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1b`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1c`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1d`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1e`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1f`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1g`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1h`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1i`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1j`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1k`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1l`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1m`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1n`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1o`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1p`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1q`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.1r`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.2`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.2a`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.2b`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.2c`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.2d`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.2e`
openssl	openssl	`1.0.2f`
nodejs	node.js	`{"startIncluding":"4.0.0","endExcluding":"4.1.2"}`	`4.1.2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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