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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2016-6308 json

statem/statem_dtls.c in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0a allocates memory before checking for an excessive length, wh…

published 2016-09-26 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7237

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.3%
EPSS 12.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

statem/statem_dtls.c in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0a allocates memory before checking for an excessive length, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted DTLS messages.

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-2016-6308 updated cvss 3.7

openssl: excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 openssl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl, openssl097a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl, openssl098e, openssl-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openssl, openssl098e, openssl-libs, openssl-perl Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 openssl Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 openssl
    +3 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 openssl Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 openssl Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 3 openssl
    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-22-349-21 updated cvss 5.9

Siemens SCALANCE X-200RNA Switch Devices

  • Siemens SCALANCE X204RNA (HSR) (6GK5204-0BA00-2MB2) <V3.2.7 Siemens SCALANCE X204RNA (PRP) (6GK5204-0BA00-2KB2) <V3.2.7 Siemens SCALANCE X204RNA EEC (HSR) (6GK5204-0BS00-2NA3) <V3.2.7 Siemens SCALANCE X204RNA EEC (PRP) (6GK5204-0BS00-3LA3) <V3.2.7 Siemens SCALANCE X204RNA EEC (PRP/HSR) (6GK5204-0BS00-3PA3) <V3.2.7
    affected: fixed in V3.2.7, mitigation support.industry.siemens.com

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

Exploit prediction

12.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
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References

Sources

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