CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-0797

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g can lead to denial of service through heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference. Attackers can exploit long digit strings mishandled by the BN_dec2bn or BN_hex2bn functions.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be vulnerable to denial of service attacks, potentially leading to service outages and unspecified other impacts.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update OpenSSL to version 1.0.1s or 1.0.2g to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized access attempts.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS