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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-OPENSSL-9883421
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2016
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Introduced: 26 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-0799  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl package and not the openssl package as distributed by RHEL.

The fmtstr function in crypto/bio/b_print.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g improperly calculates string lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (overflow and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by a large amount of ASN.1 data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2842.

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