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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2025-68160 json

Heap out-of-bounds write in BIO_f_linebuffer on short writes

published 2026-01-27 9 mo ago modified 2026-10-15 25 d ago also EUVD-2025-206397 , GHSA-g78j-46j5-97cr , JLSEC-2026-261

cvss
4.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Issue summary: Writing large, newline-free data into a BIO chain using the line-buffering filter where the next BIO performs short writes can trigger a heap-based out-of-bounds write.

Impact summary: This out-of-bounds write can cause memory corruption which typically results in a crash, leading to Denial of Service for an application.

The line-buffering BIO filter (BIO_f_linebuffer) is not used by default in TLS/SSL data paths. In OpenSSL command-line applications, it is typically only pushed onto stdout/stderr on VMS systems. Third-party applications that explicitly use this filter with a BIO chain that can short-write and that write large, newline-free data influenced by an attacker would be affected. However, the circumstances where this could happen are unlikely to be under attacker control, and BIO_f_linebuffer is unlikely to be handling non-curated data controlled by an attacker. For that reason the issue was assessed as Low severity.

The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the BIO implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.

Patch / fix

  • julia OpenSSL_jll 3.0.20+0, 3.5.5+0
  • julia Openresty_jll 1.29.203+0
  • OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.2zn, 1.1.1ze, 3.0.19, 3.3.6, 3.4.4, 3.5.5, 3.6.1
  • openssl Debian 12 3.0.18-1~deb12u2
  • openssl Debian 13 3.5.4-1~deb13u2
  • openssl Debian 14 3.5.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68160

  • openssl Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.21
  • openssl Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.7
  • openssl Ubuntu 25.10 3.5.3-1ubuntu3
  • openssl Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 3.5.5-1ubuntu1
  • openssl Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27+esm12
  • openssl Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.20+esm14
  • openssl Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.fips.4.20.14
  • openssl Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23+esm7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68160

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openssl hummingbird 1 3.5.6-0.1.hum1
  • openssl-libs hummingbird 1 3.5.6-0.1.hum1
  • openssl-perl hummingbird 1 3.5.6-0.1.hum1
  • openssl-config-fips hummingbird 1 3.5.6-0.1.hum1
  • openssl-devel-engine hummingbird 1 3.5.6-0.1.hum1
  • openssl RHEL 9 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7
  • openssl-libs RHEL 9 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7
  • openssl-perl RHEL 9 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:7261RHSA-2026:1473RHSA-2026:1472

  • openssl-3 Linux Micro 6.1 3.1.4-slfo.1.1_8.1
  • openssl-3 Linux Micro 6.0 3.1.4-11.1
  • openssl-3 SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 3.5.0-160000.5.1
  • openssl-1_1 SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 1.1.1l-150400.7.87.1
  • openssl-1_1 SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.5 +2 more 1.1.1l-150500.17.46.1
  • openssl-1_1 SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.1.1w-150600.5.21.1
  • openssl-1_1 SLE Micro 5.2 1.1.1d-150200.11.106.1
  • openssl-1_0_0 SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +7 more 1.0.2p-150000.3.102.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20373-1SUSE-SU-2026:0498-1SUSE-SU-2026:20349-1SUSE-SU-2026:20211-1SUSE-SU-2026:20223-1SUSE-SU-2026:0360-1

  • openssl-3 openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.5.3-2.1
  • openssl-3 openSUSE Leap 16.0 3.5.0-160000.5.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10237-1openSUSE-SU-2026:20152-1

  • openssl AlmaLinux 10 1:3.5.1-7.el10_1.alma.1
  • openssl-libs AlmaLinux 10 1:3.5.1-7.el10_1.alma.1
  • openssl-perl AlmaLinux 10 1:3.5.1-7.el10_1.alma.1
  • openssl AlmaLinux 9 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7
  • openssl-libs AlmaLinux 9 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7
  • openssl-perl AlmaLinux 9 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:1472ALSA-2026:1473

  • openssl Rocky Linux 10 1:3.5.1-7.el10_1
  • openssl Rocky Linux 9 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:1472RLSA-2026:1473

  • openssl Alpine 3.17 3.0.19-r0
  • openssl Alpine 3.21, Alpine 3.20 3.3.6-r0
  • openssl Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 3.5.5-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-68160

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • openssl Azure Linux 3.0 3.3.5-3
  • openssl CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.1.1k-38
  • edk2 Azure Linux 3.0 20240524git3e722403cd16-14
  • edk2 CBL-Mariner 2.0 20230301gitf80f052277c8-47
  • hvloader CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.0.1-18

azure linux advisories AZL-75281AZL-75780AZL-75887AZL-76125AZL-76164

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68160 updated cvss 4.7

openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to out-of-bounds write in BIO filter

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl, openssl-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ovmf, OVMF, AAVMF, openssl, openssl-libs, openssl-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 edk2, shim, openssl, shim-x64, edk2-ovmf, shim-aa64, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 edk2, shim, shim-x64, edk2-ovmf, shim-aa64, edk2-tools, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 edk2, shim, shim-unsigned-x64, shim-unsigned-aarch64 Red Hat JBoss Core Services openssl
    +1 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18 cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-rhel9 1789029076, cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-rhel9 1791459711, cert-manager/cert-manager-istio-csr-rhel9 1791459759, cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-bundle 1791966259, cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-acmesolver-rhel9 1791459707
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:82354
  • Red Hat Cost Management 4 costmanagement 1770836349
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:3228
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 discovery 1769104765, discovery 1769111774
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1736
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) openssl-perl 3.5.1-7.el9_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1473
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) openssl-perl 3.5.1-7.el10_1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1472
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) openssl 3.5.1-7.el9_7, openssl-libs 3.5.1-7.el9_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1473
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10) openssl 3.5.1-7.el10_1, openssl-libs 3.5.1-7.el10_1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1472
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  • Red Hat Hardened Images openssl 3.5.6-0.1.hum1, openssl-libs 3.5.6-0.1.hum1, openssl-perl 3.5.6-0.1.hum1, openssl-config-fips 3.5.6-0.1.hum1, openssl-devel-engine 3.5.6-0.1.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:7261
  • Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5 insights-proxy 1770740405
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2485
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5 rhui5 1770646925, rhui5 1773670073, rhui5 1773670137, rhui5 1773672059
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:4943
  • Red Hat Cost Management 4 costmanagement 1770837277 Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5 rhui5 1770807477, rhui5 1770808689, rhui5 1770808765, rhui5 1773668803
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-24-102-01 updated cvss 4.7

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP

  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem
    affected: mitigation, no fix available

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia OpenSSL_jll
<3.0.20+0
>=3.5.0+0, <3.5.5+0
3.0.20+0
3.5.5+0
julia Openresty_jll
<1.29.203+0
1.29.203+0

Affected products

  • OpenSSL OpenSSL
  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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