CVE-2016-2180 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2180?

CVE-2016-2180 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openssl Openssl, published on 1 Aug 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TS_OBJ_print_bio function in crypto/ts/ts_lib.c in the X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP) implementation in OpenSSL through 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted time-stamp file that is mishandled by the "openssl ts" command.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2180?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Openssl Openssl, Oracle Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2180?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-2180 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-63073 Untrusted Sender DN Used as Format String in CMP Response Validation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-6309 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-0799 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8

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Sources

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

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-2180, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2180, GHSA-9mvv-53wm-cpqm, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2180.