Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-0797

Title: Nodejs Node.Js Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-0797.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 03, 2016

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

36.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-0797: Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long digit string that is mishandled by the (1) BN_dec2bn or (2) BN_hex2bn function, related to crypto/bn/bn.h and crypto/bn/bn_print.c.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00017.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00038.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00017.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00019.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145889460330120&w=2 http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-openssl http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3500 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83763 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035133 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2914-1 https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c175308407858afff3fc8c2e5e085d94d12edc7d https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03741en_us https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05052990 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40168 https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10156 https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl.asc https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-15 https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00017.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00038.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00017.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00019.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145889460330120&w=2 http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302-openssl http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3500 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83763 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91787 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035133 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2914-1 https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c175308407858afff3fc8c2e5e085d94d12edc7d https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03741en_us https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05052990 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05376917 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40168 https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10156 https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:12.openssl.asc https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-15 https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-0797 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 03, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.