vulnerability

IBM AIX: openssl_advisory20 (CVE-2016-2109): Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affects AIX

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 4, 2016
Added
Nov 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The asn1_d2i_read_bio function in crypto/asn1/a_d2i_fp.c in the ASN.1 BIO implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a short invalid encoding.

Solution

ibm-aix-openssl_advisory20
Title
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