CVE-2016-0705

Publication date 22 February 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Double free vulnerability in the dsa_priv_decode function in crypto/dsa/dsa_ameth.c 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 corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed DSA private key.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openssl 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.0.2g-1ubuntu2
15.10 wily
Fixed 1.0.2d-0ubuntu1.4
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.18
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.35
openssl098 16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
15.10 wily Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
openssl

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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