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IBM AIX: openssl_advisory18 (CVE-2016-0705): Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affects AIX

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Mar 3, 2016

Added

Nov 30, 2017

Modified

May 6, 2026

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

ibm-aix-openssl_advisory18

References

CVE-2016-0705
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-0705
EUVD-EUVD-2016-0740
https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory18.asc
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-0740

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