CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4021
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The read_binary function in buffer.c in pgpdump before 0.30 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via crafted input, as demonstrated by the \xa3\x03 string.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• pgpdump project pgpdump (<= 0.29)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99 Exploit
- https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16 github.com
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt Exploit
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99 Exploit
- https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16 github.com
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt Exploit