CVE-2016-2181

High

Description

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductOpenssl
PublishedSep 16, 2016
First seenSep 16, 2016

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
openssl openssl1.0.1, 1.0.1a, 1.0.1b, 1.0.1c, 1.0.1d, 1.0.1e, 1.0.1f, 1.0.1g, 1.0.1h, 1.0.1i, 1.0.1j, 1.0.1k, 1.0.1l, 1.0.1m, 1.0.1n, 1.0.1o, 1.0.1p, 1.0.1q, 1.0.1r, 1.0.1s, 1.0.1t, 1.0.2, 1.0.2a, 1.0.2b, 1.0.2c, 1.0.2d, 1.0.2e, 1.0.2f, 1.0.2g, 1.0.2h—
oracle linux6, 7—

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