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CVE-2016-0705

37
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0705 is a critical double free vulnerability in the dsa_priv_decode function of OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, Google, and Oracle. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service through memory corruption or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts via a malformed DSA private key, requiring no user interaction or complex attack conditions. Despite its high severity and significant media coverage (1 article, top 5% of CVEs), there is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, suggesting it is not actively exploited in the wild. Community discussion is minimal, with only one mention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.6.0, <= 5.6.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.7.0, <= 5.7.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
26.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2633 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openssl-0:1.0.1e-42.el6_7.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el6_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: openssl-1:1.0.1e-51.el7_2.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SupplementaryFixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.8Fixed in: java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el6_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor7-0:7.2-20160302.1.el6ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7Fixed in: rhev-hypervisor7-0:7.2-20160302.1.el7ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Text-Only JBCS
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.7Fixed in: guest-images
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 7.2Fixed in: rhel-guest-image
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3Fixed in: openssl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-0705Low

OpenSSL: Double-free in DSA code

Feb 18, 2016

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178358.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178817.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00038.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00053.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00019.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
marc.info
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
marc.info
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
marc.info
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openssl.org / news/secadv/20160301.txt
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2568
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2575
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2713
Third Party Advisory
cert-portal.siemens.com / productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf
git.openssl.org
h20566.www2.hpe.com / hpsc/doc/public/display
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
kb.pulsesecure.net / articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40168
Third Party Advisory
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
Third Party Advisory
security.freebsd.org / advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl.asc
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-15
Third Party Advisory
openssl.org / news/secadv/20160301.txt
Vendor Advisory
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-openssl
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3500
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html
PatchVendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
PatchVendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/83754
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/91787
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1035133
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2914-1
Third Party Advisory