CVE-2016-6306

medium HPE
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
8.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 8% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: September 26, 2016 (3517 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: HPE
Source: NVD

Description

The certificate parser in OpenSSL before 1.0.1u and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2i might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted certificate operations, related to s3_clnt.c and s3_srvr.c.

CWE

CWE-125

Affected Products

openssl opensslhp icewall federation agenthp icewall mcrphp icewall ssohp icewall sso agent optionnovell suse linux enterprise module for web scriptingnodejs node.jsdebian debian linuxcanonical ubuntu linux

References

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