CVE-2016-0797

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    CVE-2016-0797

    Published: 3 Mar 2016Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf, https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c175308407858afff3fc8c2e5e085d94d12edc7d, http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00005.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00012.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00017.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00025.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00038.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00015.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00017.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00019.html, http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145889460330120&w=2, http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html, http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-openssl, http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3500, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83763, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035133, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2914-1, https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03741en_us, https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05052990, https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917, https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722, https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40168, https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10156, https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl.asc, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-15, https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- f9f837885343a2a3f5ba2b8c510eaac395c8c865

    Affected versions

    v5.7.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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