How severe is CVE-2016-3959?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 7.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2016-3959?

This is classified as CWE-20, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2016-3959

HIGH Year: 2016

CVSS v3 Score

7.5

High

CVSS v2 Score

5.0

Medium

Weakness Type

CWE-20

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Vulnerability Description

The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly check parameters passed to the big integer library, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted public key to a program that uses HTTPS client certificates or SSH server libraries.

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