CVE-2016-5017 (GCVE-0-2016-5017)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-21 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the C cli shell in Apache Zookeeper before 3.4.9 and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, when using the "cmd:" batch mode syntax, allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a long command string.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-09-16 00:00
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