#VU82375 Memory leak in OpenSSL - CVE-2016-0798

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#VU82375 Memory leak in OpenSSL - CVE-2016-0798

Published: October 25, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82375
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0798
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
OpenSSL
Software vendor:
OpenSSL Software Foundation

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the SRP_VBASE_get_by_user implementation in OpenSSL. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack (memory consumption) by providing an invalid username in a connection attempt, related to apps/s_server.c and crypto/srp/srp_vfy.c


Remediation

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