ALPINE-CVE-2016-6306 — Vulnetix

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ALPINE-CVE-2016-6306 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.900000095367432 MEDIUM

The certificate parser in OpenSSL before 1.0.1u and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2i might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted certificate operations, related to s3_clnt.c and s3_srvr.c.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

5.900000095367432

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.6	openssl	1.0.0a-r1, 1.0.0a-r0, 1.0.0-r0
Alpine:v3.4	openssl	0.9.8k-r5, 1.0.2-r0, 1.0.2a-r0
Alpine:v3.3	openssl	1.0.2a-r1, 1.0.2b-r0, 1.0.2c-r0
Alpine:v3.5	openssl	1.0.1c-r3, 0, 0.9.8i-r0
Alpine:v3.7	openssl	1.0.2a-r0, 1.0.2a-r1, 1.0.2b-r0
Alpine:v3.8	openssl	1.0.2h-r4, 1.0.2-r0, 1.0.2a-r0
Alpine:v3.2	openssl	1.0.2h-r4, 1.0.2h-r3, 1.0.2h-r2

Timeline

Sep 26, 2016 CVE Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-6306 advisory

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