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CVE-2016-2181
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-09-16T05:59:01.347 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:43:36.440

Summary

The Anti-Replay feature in the DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 mishandles early use of a new epoch number in conjunction with a large sequence number, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (false-positive packet drops) via spoofed DTLS records, related to rec_layer_d1.c and ssl3_record.c.

Affected products

openssl — openssl

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References

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