ubuntu-cve-2016-0799
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-03-01 13:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:37
Summary
Details

The fmtstr function in crypto/bio/b_print.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g improperly calculates string lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (overflow and out-of-bounds read) 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-2016-2842.

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0799",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:37:53Z",
  "published": "2016-03-01T13:00:00Z",
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