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IBM Java: IBM Security Update August 2018 (CVE-2016-0705)

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IBM Java: IBM Security Update August 2018 (CVE-2016-0705)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/03/2016
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/05/2018
Modified
10/05/2018

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(s)

  • ibm-java-upgrade-8_0_5_20

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