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F5 Networks: K93122894 (CVE-2016-0705): OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0705

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F5 Networks: K93122894 (CVE-2016-0705): OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-0705

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
05/05/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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