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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2177: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 20, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

OpenSSL through 1.0.2h incorrectly uses pointer arithmetic for heap-buffer boundary checks, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging unexpected malloc behavior, related to s3_srvr.c, ssl_sess.c, and t1_lib.c.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openssl
Title
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