CVE-2016-2105: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 39.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the EVP_EncodeUpdate function in crypto/evp/encode.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a large amount of binary data.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.11.5 only
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Node.js Node.js: from 0.10.0, before 0.10.45 (fixed in 0.10.45); from 0.12.0, before 0.12.14 (fixed in 0.12.14); from 4.0.0, up to and including 4.1.2; from 4.2.0, before 4.4.4 (fixed in 4.4.4); from 5.0.0, before 5.11.1 (fixed in 5.11.1); version 6.0.0 only
• OpenSSL OpenSSL: version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.1a only; version 1.0.1b only; version 1.0.1c only; version 1.0.1d only; version 1.0.1e only; …
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only
• Oracle MySQL: from 5.6.0, up to and including 5.6.30; from 5.7.0, up to and including 5.7.12
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 6 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2016-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.