vulnerability

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
Sep 16, 2016
Added
Feb 16, 2017
Modified
Mar 2, 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

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Title
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