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FKIE_CVE-2016-4478

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-13 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:47

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

Buffer overflow in the xmlrpc_char_encode function in modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c in Atheme before 7.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XMLRPC response encoding.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1
	cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
opensuse	leap	42.1
opensuse	opensuse	13.2
atheme	atheme	*
debian	debian_linux	8.0

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CVE-2016-4478 (GCVE-0-2016-4478)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-13 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:32

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2016-01-09 00:00

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