Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenSSL ASN.1 BIO Implementation

Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenSSL ASN.1 BIO Implementation

CVE-2016-2109 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The asn1_d2i_read_bio function in crypto/asn1/a_d2i_fp.c in the ASN.1 BIO implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a short invalid encoding.

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