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CVE-2016-0705

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 26.3% (pctl 98)

Patch early

EPSS 26.3% — above the 10% action threshold.

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.

Scoring

CVSS9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0)
VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS26.34% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs
On CISA KEVno
Public exploitnone known
Published2016-03-03
Last modified2026-06-17

Affected (5)

VendorProduct
canonicalubuntu linux
debiandebian linux
googleandroid
opensslopenssl
oraclemysql

References

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