CVE-2016-6305

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6305
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6305.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6305
Downstream
Published
2016-09-26T19:59:01.597Z
Modified
2026-07-08T22:48:47.424438Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The ssl3readbytes function in record/reclayers3.c in OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering a zero-length record in an SSL_peek call.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openssl/openssl

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openssl/openssl
Events
Database specific
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.1.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.1.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.1.0
Other
OpenSSL_1_1_0l

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6305.json"