CVE-2016-4912

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-05-18
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
1329295: CVE-2016-4912 openslp: null pointer dereference in _xrealloc() function

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The _xrealloc function in xlsp_xmalloc.c in OpenSLP 2.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a large number of crafted packets, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

Find out more about CVE-2016-4912 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5.4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openslp Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openslp Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Yuguang Cai (Qihoo 360) for reporting this issue.

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