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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6306): OpenSSL regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6306): OpenSSL regression

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/01/2017
Modified
08/05/2020

Description

The certificate parser in OpenSSL before 1.0.1u and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2i might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted certificate operations, related to s3_clnt.c and s3_srvr.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libssl1-0-0

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