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F5: CVE-2016-6306: K90492697: OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6306

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Oct 24, 2016

Added

Jun 17, 2026

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The certificate parser in OpenSSL before 1.0.1u and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2i might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted certificate operations, related to s3_clnt.c and s3_srvr.c.

Solution

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2016-6306
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-6306
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K90492697
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-7235
CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2016-7235

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