vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2959-1 (CVE-2016-2108): OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 3, 2016
Added
May 3, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The ASN.1 implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1o and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2c allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and memory corruption) via an ANY field in crafted serialized data, aka the "negative zero" issue.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libssl1-0-0
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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