A flaw was found in the way OpenSSL encoded certain ASN.1 data structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when verified or re-encoded by OpenSSL, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the OpenSSL library.
Find out more about CVE-2016-2108 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.6 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | Low |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 | RHSA-2016:2056 | 2016-10-12 |
| Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 Server | RHSA-2017:0194 | 2017-01-25 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.7 (openssl) | RHSA-2016:2073 | 2016-10-18 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (openssl) | RHSA-2016:1137 | 2016-05-31 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openssl) | RHSA-2016:0996 | 2016-05-10 |
| Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 | RHSA-2016:2957 | 2016-12-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (openssl) | RHSA-2016:0722 | 2016-05-09 |
| Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 Server | RHSA-2017:0193 | 2017-01-25 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 | openssl | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | openssl | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 | openssl | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | openssl098e | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | openssl098e | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | openssl097a | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | openssl | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | openssl096b | Will not fix |
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