CVE-2016-3959
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Denial of service due to unchecked parameters in crypto/dsa
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
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
Fedora Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Affected | — |
| 23 | Affected | — |
| 22 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 42.1 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | stdlib | >=1.6.0-0,<1.6.1 | 1.5.4 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3959.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182526.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183106.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183137.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00077.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1538.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/2
- https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/21533/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/9eqIHqaWvck
- https://go.dev/cl/21533
- https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/eb876dd83cb8413335d64e50aae5d38337d1ebb4
- https://go.dev/issue/15184
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/9eqIHqaWvck
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.