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Unscored USN-2959-1 5 CVEs

openssl vulnerabilities

Published May 3, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, Hanno Böck, and David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL
incorrectly handled memory when decoding ASN.1 structures. A remote
attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2108)

Juraj Somorovsky discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly performed padding when
the connection uses the AES CBC cipher and the server supports AES-NI. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a padding oracle
attack and decrypt traffic. (CVE-2016-2107)

Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled large amounts of
input data to the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function. A remote attacker could use
this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2105)

Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled large amounts of
input data to the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. A remote attacker could use
this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2106)

Brian Carpenter discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled memory when
ASN.1 data is read from a BIO. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause memory consumption, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-2109)

As a security improvement, this update also modifies OpenSSL behaviour to
reject DH key sizes below 1024 bits, preventing a possible downgrade
attack.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS openssl 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.19
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS openssl 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.1

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2105
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2106
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2107
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2108
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2109