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CentOS: (CVE-2016-0797) (Multiple Advisories): openssl

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CentOS: (CVE-2016-0797) (Multiple Advisories): openssl

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/01/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/06/2016
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-openssl
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-devel
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-libs
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-perl
  • centos-upgrade-openssl-static

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