CVE-2016-2105

high
Published 2016-05-05 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
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

Integer overflow in the EVP_EncodeUpdate function in crypto/evp/encode.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a large amount of binary data.

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

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
macos macos10.11.5affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.0.2h-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.0.2h-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.0.2h-1
debian debiansidfixed1.0.2h-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.0.2h-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclemysql{"startIncluding":"5.6.0","endIncluding":"5.6.30"}
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1m
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1n
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1o
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1p
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1q
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1r
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1s
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2g
nodejs nodejsnode.js{"startIncluding":"0.10.0","endExcluding":"0.10.45"}0.10.45
nodejs nodejsnode.js6.0.0
oracle oraclemysql{"startIncluding":"5.7.0","endIncluding":"5.7.12"}

References

CWEs

CWE-190

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

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