CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4478
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-13
- 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])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• atheme atheme (<= 7.2.6)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1 www.openwall.com
- https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e github.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1 www.openwall.com
- https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e github.com