Description
Double free vulnerability in the dsa_priv_decode function in crypto/dsa/dsa_ameth.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed DSA private key.
Published: 2016-03-03
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 21.8% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3500-1 openssl security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2914-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
References
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http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178358.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178817.html 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/msg00005.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/2016-04/msg00038.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00053.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00019.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145889460330120&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145983526810210&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=146108058503441&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-openssl cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3500 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.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/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83754 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035133 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2914-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2568 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2575 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2713 cve-icon cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6c88c71b4e4825c7bc0489306d062d017634eb88 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://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05052990 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05068681 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05086877 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05126404 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05131085 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05135617 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05141441 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150736 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150800 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150888 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05176716 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05301946 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40168 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0705 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-2016-0705 cve-icon
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.2445}

epss

{'score': 0.24927}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:30:04.546Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-0705

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-03-03T20:59:00.953

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

Link: CVE-2016-0705

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-02-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-0705 - Bugzilla

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