Critical severity · published Mar 3, 2016
CVE-2016-0705
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…
9.8
CVSS
26.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)26.3% · higher than 98% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Android · Google
4.0; 4.0.1; 4.0.2; 4.0.3; 4.0.4; 4.1; +16 more · source: NVD
MY
MySQL · Oracle
5.6.0 through 5.6.29; 5.7.0 through 5.7.11 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
OP
Openssl · Openssl
1.0.1; 1.0.1; 1.0.1; 1.0.1; 1.0.1a; 1.0.1b; +26 more · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
12.04; 14.04; 15.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0705
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0705
Third Party Advisory
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178358.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178817.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html
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