Critical
Security advisory
The ASN.1 implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1o and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2c allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and memory corruption) via an ANY field in crafted serialized data, aka the "negative zero" issue.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-2108
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The ASN.1 implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1o and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2c allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer underflow and memory corruption) via an ANY field in crafted serialized data, aka the "negative zero" issue.
osv:CVE-2016-2108
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf",
"https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3661bb4e7934668bd99ca777ea8b30eedfafa871",
"https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5da52e308a6aeea6d5f3df98c4da295d7e9cc27",
"https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbgn03726en_us",
"https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03756en_us",
"https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03765en_us",
"https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05149345",
"https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05164862",
"https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05386804",
"https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40202",
"https://support.apple.com/HT206903",
"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1137",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0193",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0194",
"https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa123",
"https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00067&languageid=en-fr",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-16",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20160504-0001/",
"https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160503.txt"
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