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OCAP audit of OpenSSL

Type: otherSources: OpenSSL news

An audit of OpenSSL development code identified issues and recommendations. The announcement says significant security issues, including CVE-2016-2181, had already been addressed, but does not specify a released fixed version for that CVE.

Products
OpenSSL
Affected versions
1.0.1 and earlier branches
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2016-2181
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
2 Nov 2026, 00:22 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

OCAP audit of OpenSSL

official-openssl-news · Original source

Published 15 Dec 2016, 01:00 UTC

An audit of OpenSSL development code identified issues and recommendations. The announcement says significant security issues, including CVE-2016-2181, had already been addressed, but does not specify a released fixed version for that CVE.

Any significant security issues, such as CVE-2016-2181 (DTLS replay protection DoS), have already been addressed.

OpenSSL

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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  "id": "c7fb7c06e56f2852f3372c7b6ced54751952f0ab27e0aee6e10fb1d919e3153b",
  "url": "https://openssl-library.org/post/2016-12-15-audit/",
  "method": "llm",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "OCAP audit of OpenSSL",
    "summary": "An audit of OpenSSL development code identified issues and recommendations. The announcement says significant security issues, including CVE-2016-2181, had already been addressed, but does not specify a released fixed version for that CVE.",
    "evidence": "Any significant security issues, such as CVE-2016-2181 (DTLS replay protection DoS), have already been addressed.",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "OpenSSL",
          "evidence": "OpenSSL 1.1.0 has made some extensive internal changes"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "1.0.1 and earlier branches",
            "evidence": "there are a number of buffer overreads in buffers during protocol parsing in the 1.0.1 and earlier branches"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "fixed_cves": [],
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-2181",
        "evidence": "CVE-2016-2181 (DTLS replay protection DoS)"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "official-openssl-news",
  "document_id": 24262,
  "published_at": "2016-12-15T01:00:00+00:00"
}