CVE-2016-2108 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2016-2108

The ASN.1 implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1o and 1.0.2 before...

Vulnerability Description

The ASN.1 implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1o and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2c allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and memory corruption) via an ANY field in crafted serialized data, aka the "negative zero" issue.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux hpc node, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation, openssl, enterprise linux hpc node eus, enterprise linux server aus, enterprise linux server eus, android
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0, 7.0, 0, 1.0.2, 1.0.2a, 1.0.2b, 7.2, 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1, 4.1.2, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.1.0, 6.0.1

Timeline

Official Publish: May 5th, 2016
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.