CVE-2016-2842

critical

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

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

The doapr_outch function in crypto/bio/b_print.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g does not verify that a certain memory allocation succeeds, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write or memory consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by a large amount of ASN.1 data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0799.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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	bookworm	fixed	`1.0.2g-1`
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`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
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`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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