CVE-2016-0798

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 24.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in the SRP_VBASE_get_by_user implementation in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by providing an invalid username in a connection attempt, related to apps/s_server.c and crypto/srp/srp_vfy.c.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 1.0.1, 1.0.1-beta1, 1.0.1-beta2, 1.0.1-beta3, 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b (+26)

References

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/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html
http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt
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/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html

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