CVE-2016-2182

critical
Published 2016-09-16 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The BN_bn2dec function in crypto/bn/bn_print.c in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 does not properly validate division results, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 1:1.0.2.i-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.0.2i-1
sid Fixed 1.0.2i-1
forky Fixed 1.0.2i-1
bullseye Fixed 1.0.2i-1
bookworm Fixed 1.0.2i-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
hp hpicewall_federation_agent3.0
hp hpicewall_mcrp3.0
hp hpicewall_sso10.0
hp hpicewall_sso_agent_option10.0
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1h
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1i
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1j
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1k
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1l
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1m
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1n
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1o
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1p
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1q
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1r
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1s
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.1t
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2a
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2b
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2c
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2d
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2e
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2f
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2g
openssl opensslopenssl1.0.2h

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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