How severe is CVE-2016-9939?

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

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2016-9939?

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

CVE-2016-9939

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

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.

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