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A vulnerability was found in Apple Mac OS X up to 10.11.5 (Operating System) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component OpenSSL. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a numeric error vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-189. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Integer overflow in the EVP_EncodeUpdate function in crypto/evp/encode.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a large amount of binary data.
The weakness was released 07/18/2016 by Guido Vranken with Oracle as HT206903 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-2105 since 01/29/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The advisory points out:
Multiple issues existed in OpenSSL. These issues were resolved by backporting the fixes from OpenSSL 1.0.2h/1.0.1 to OpenSSL 0.9.8.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 93118 (RHEL 7 : JBoss Web Server (RHSA-2016:1648) (httpoxy)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196457 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Openssl Vulnerabilities (USN-2959-1)).
Upgrading to version 10.11.6 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (93118). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 76354, 78584, 78603 and 78601.
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Class: Numeric errorCWE: CWE-189
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Nessus ID: 93118
Nessus Name: RHEL 7 : JBoss Web Server (RHSA-2016:1648) (httpoxy)
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OpenVAS ID: 14611
OpenVAS Name: Amazon Linux Local Check: alas-2016-695
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Upgrade: Mac OS X 10.11.6
Patch: 5b814481f3573fa9677f3a31ee51322e2a22ee6a
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Sources
Vendor: apple.comAdvisory: HT206903
Researcher: Guido Vranken
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-2105 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1035721
SecurityFocus: 91787 - Oracle July 2016 Critical Patch Update Multiple Vulnerabilities
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20150108
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Entry
Created: 07/19/2016 19:25Updated: 09/06/2022 09:57
Changes: 07/19/2016 19:25 (59), 03/03/2019 11:50 (26), 09/06/2022 09:57 (6)
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