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Red Hat: CVE-2016-2105: Important: openssl security update ((Multiple Advisories))

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-2105: Important: openssl security update ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/04/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/06/2017
Modified
12/22/2017

Description

Integer overflow in the EVP_EncodeUpdate function in crypto/evp/encode.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a large amount of binary data.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-openssl
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-perl
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-static

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