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CVE-2016-2108

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 77.9% 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-119

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.

Affected products

• Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+16)
• OpenSSL: through 1.0.1n; 1.0.2, 1.0.2-beta1, 1.0.2-beta2, 1.0.2-beta3, 1.0.2a, 1.0.2b
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0, 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

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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