CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-9939
High (7.5). EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Crypto++ (aka cryptopp and libcrypto++) 5.6.4 contained a bug in its ASN.1 BER decoding routine. The library will allocate a memory block based on the length field of the ASN.1 object. If there is not enough content octets in the ASN.1 object, then the function will fail and the memory block will be zeroed even if its unused. There is a noticeable delay during the wipe for a large allocation.
Severity
- EPSS
- 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- cryptopp:crypto\+\+
- debian:debian_linux
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3748
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/12/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94854
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7IL5A6465IEPW5GAWGXB2ENJPFYVWTJM/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3748