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F5 Networks: K01276005 (CVE-2016-2182): OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182

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F5 Networks: K01276005 (CVE-2016-2182): OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2182

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The BN_bn2dec function in crypto/bn/bn_print.c in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 does not properly validate division results, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Solution(s)

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