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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2016-0705

CVE-2016-0705

CRITICAL9.8

Double free vulnerability in the dsa_priv_decode function in crypto/dsa/dsa_ameth

Published Mar 3, 2016

Modified 1 years ago

Details

Double free vulnerability in the dsa_priv_decode function in crypto/dsa/dsa_ameth.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed DSA private key.

References(58)

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178358.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178817.html

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/2016-04/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00053.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00019.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145889460330120&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145983526810210&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=146108058503441&w=2

http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.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

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.0

9.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

HighC:H

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

HighA:H

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

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedMar 3, 2016

ModifiedAug 5, 2024

CVE-2016-0705 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence