CVE-2016-2842 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Openssl
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
54.0%
top 1.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 3
Latest updateNov 11
Description
The doapr_outch function in crypto/bio/b_print.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g does not verify that a certain memory allocation succeeds, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write or memory consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by a large amount of ASN.1 data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0799.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages5 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4📋Vendor Advisories
11Android▶
CVE-2016-2842: Android Security Bulletin 2016-08-01
CVE: CVE-2016-2842
Affected AOSP versions: 4↗2016-08-01
Red Hat
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📄Research Papers
4arXiv▶
From LLMs to Agents: A Comparative Evaluation of LLMs and LLM-based Agents in Security Patch Detection↗2025-11-11
arXiv▶
One Bad Apple Spoils the Barrel: Understanding the Security Risks Introduced by Third-Party Components in IoT Firmware↗2022-12-29
arXiv▶
A Novel Model for Vulnerability Analysis through Enhanced Directed Graphs and Quantitative Metrics↗2021-12-13
arXiv▶
Hey Google, What Exactly Do Your Security Patches Tell Us? A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Android Patched Vulnerabilities↗2019-05-22
💬Community
5Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-2842 openssl: doapr_outch function does not verify that certain memory allocation succeeds↗2016-03-04
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-2842 mingw-openssl: openssl: doapr_outch function does not verify that certain memory allocation succeeds [fedora-all]↗2016-03-04
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2016-2842 openssl: doapr_outch function does not verify that certain memory allocation succeeds [fedora-all]↗2016-03-04
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CVE-2016-2842 openssl101e: openssl: doapr_outch function does not verify that certain memory allocation succeeds [epel-5]↗2016-03-04