ubuntu · CVE-2016-6306

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:48 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6306 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (openssl, openssl098), 20 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 10, DNE 8, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The certificate parser in OpenSSL before 1.0.1u and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2i might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted certificate operations, related to s3_clnt.c and s3_srvr.c.

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