vulnerability

IBM AIX: openssl_advisory20 (CVE-2016-2176): Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affects AIX

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 4, 2016
Added
Nov 30, 2017
Modified
May 6, 2026

Description

The X509_NAME_oneline function in crypto/x509/x509_obj.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process stack memory or cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via crafted EBCDIC ASN.1 data.

Solution

ibm-aix-openssl_advisory20
Title
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