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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-2109: Vulnerability in OpenSSL

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-2109: Vulnerability in OpenSSL

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-security-openssl-1-0-1-20-0-175-3-9-0-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-security-openssl-openssl-fips-140-2-0-6-0-175-3-9-0-1-0

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