CVE-2016-2181

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 1.0.1, 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b, 1.0.1c, 1.0.1d, 1.0.1e (+24)
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 6, 7

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00032.html

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