Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-0799

Title: Pulsesecure Steel Belted Radius Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-0799.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 03, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

32.41%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-0799: The fmtstr function in crypto/bio/b_print.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g improperly calculates string lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (overflow and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by a large amount of ASN.1 data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2842.

Impacted Vendors

hpe 1

akamai_technologies 1

pulsesecure 2

openssl 1

redhat 1

Reference Links

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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://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.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178358.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178817.html 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/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://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145983526810210&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=146108058503441&w=2 http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0722.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0996.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2073.html 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/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83755 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=578b956fe741bf8e84055547b1e83c28dd902c73 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-c05068681 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05086877 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05126404 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05131085 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05135617 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05141441 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150736 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150800 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05150888 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05157667 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380 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://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 v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-0799 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.