Numeric Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1404-OPENSSL-373663
  • published16 Sept 2016
  • disclosed16 Sept 2016

Introduced: 16 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-2181  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

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

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.

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