CVE-2016-2181

Public on 2016-09-16

Modified on 2016-10-12

Description

A flaw was found in the Datagram TLS (DTLS) replay protection implementation in OpenSSL. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make a DTLS server using OpenSSL to reject further packets sent from a DTLS client over an established DTLS connection.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.9

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	openssl	2016-10-12	ALAS-2016-755

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	5.9	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2016-2181 Mitre: CVE-2016-2181