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Ubuntu: USN-2914-1 (CVE-2016-0705): OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 1, 2016
Added
Mar 3, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 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

ubuntu-upgrade-libssl1-0-0
Title
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