VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2109

high
Published 2016-05-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/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

The asn1_d2i_read_bio function in crypto/asn1/a_d2i_fp.c in the ASN.1 BIO implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a short invalid encoding.

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
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
redhat rhel7.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openssl opensslopenssl{"endIncluding":"1.0.1s"}
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

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.