CVE-2016-0797 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0797?

CVE-2016-0797 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Mar 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long digit string that is mishandled by the (1) BN_dec2bn or (2) BN_hex2bn function, related to crypto/bn/bn.h and crypto/bn/bn_print.c.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0797?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Nodejs Node.js, Openssl Openssl.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0797?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-0797 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0797 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0797, GHSA-88pg-cj77-9fxr, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0797.