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CVE-2016-2105

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 39.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the EVP_EncodeUpdate function in crypto/evp/encode.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a large amount of binary data.

Affected products

• macOS: 10.11.5
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Node.js: from 0.10.0 before 0.10.45; from 0.12.0 before 0.12.14; from 4.0.0 through 4.1.2; from 4.2.0 before 4.4.4; from 5.0.0 before 5.11.1; 6.0.0 — fixed in 0.10.45, 0.12.14, 4.4.4, 5.11.1
• OpenSSL: 1.0.1, 1.0.1-beta1, 1.0.1-beta2, 1.0.1-beta3, 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b (+28)
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• MySQL Server: from 5.6.0 through 5.6.30; from 5.7.0 through 5.7.12
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Node.js 0.10.45, 0.12.14, 4.4.4, 5.11.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00000.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183457.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183607.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184605.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00011.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00015.html

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