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CVE-2016-2109

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 29.21% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-05-05 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-2109
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
29.21%
OpenSSL

Original NVD Description

The asn1_d2i_read_bio function in crypto/asn1/a_d2i_fp.c in the ASN.1 BIO implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a short invalid encoding.