Heap overflow in Apple Inc. products - CVE-2016-2105

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Heap overflow in Apple Inc. products - CVE-2016-2105

Published: September 23, 2016 / Updated: January 13, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU640
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2105
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenSSL Software Foundation
Oracle

Apple Inc.
Affected software:
OpenSSL
Oracle Solaris
Oracle Linux
macOS
Oracle Access Manager
Oracle Exalogic Infrastructure
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Oracle Secure Global Desktop

Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle Commerce Guided Search
Oracle Agile Engineering Data Management
Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub
Oracle VM Server for x86

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause heap overflow on the target system.

The weakness is caused by insufficient input validation. By sending a great deal of input data attackers are able to cause overflow of the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function used for binary data encoding.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in heap overflow on the vulnerable system.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-2105

Update 1.0.1 to 1.0.1t.
Update 1.0.2 to 1.0.2h.

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