CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2851
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• cypherpunks libotr (<= 4.1.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00021.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00030.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/21 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3512 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537745/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84285 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2926-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2016-March/002581.html Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39550/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2016-001-libotr/ Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00021.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00030.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/21 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3512 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537745/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84285 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2926-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2016-March/002581.html Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39550/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2016-001-libotr/ Exploit