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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-0797: OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-0797: OpenSSL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-openssl

References

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