Description
An oracle protection mechanism in the get_client_master_key function in s2_srvr.c in the SSLv2 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a overwrites incorrect MASTER-KEY bytes during use of export cipher suites, which makes it easier for remote attackers to decrypt TLS ciphertext data by leveraging a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle, a related issue to CVE-2016-0800.
Published: 2016-03-02
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: 6.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-0739 An oracle protection mechanism in the get_client_master_key function in s2_srvr.c in the SSLv2 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a overwrites incorrect MASTER-KEY bytes during use of export cipher suites, which makes it easier for remote attackers to decrypt TLS ciphertext data by leveraging a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle, a related issue to CVE-2016-0800.
References
Link Providers
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00012.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00017.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00025.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00038.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-openssl cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83764 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035133 cve-icon cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
https://drownattack.com cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae50d8270026edf5b3c7f8aaa0c6677462b33d97 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03741en_us cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40168 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0704 cve-icon
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl.asc cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-15 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0704 cve-icon
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.07651}

epss

{'score': 0.05992}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:30:03.525Z

Reserved: 2015-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-0704

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-03-02T11:59:01.363

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-0704

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-0704 - Bugzilla

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