CVE-2016-0797Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Openssl

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
34.2%
top 3.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 3
Latest updateNov 7

Description

Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long digit string that is mishandled by the (1) BN_dec2bn or (2) BN_hex2bn function, related to crypto/bn/bn.h and crypto/bn/bn_print.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

Debianopenssl/openssl< 1.0.2g-1+3
NVDopenssl/openssl26 versions+25
NVDnodejs/node.js4.0.04.1.2+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.10

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-88pg-cj77-9fxr: Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 12022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2016-0797: Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 12016-03-03
CVEList
CVE-2016-0797: Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 12016-03-03

📋Vendor Advisories

7
Palo Alto
PAN-SA-2024-0014 Informational Bulletin: Impact of OSS CVEs in Cortex XDR Agent2024-11-07
Apple
CVE-2016-0797: Xcode 8.12016-10-27
BSD
FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl: Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities2016-03-10
Cisco
Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL Affecting Cisco Products: March 20162016-03-02
Ubuntu
OpenSSL vulnerabilities2016-03-01

💬Community

2
HackerOne
BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption (CVE-2016-0797)2016-03-27
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-0797 OpenSSL: BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption2016-02-25
CVE-2016-0797 — Openssl vulnerability | cvebase