CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5301
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-30
- 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-20
Description
The parse_chunk_header function in libtorrent before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) HTTP response or possibly a (2) UPnP broadcast.
Affected configurations
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• arvidn libtorrent (<= 1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00079.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00103.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00043.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/04/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91498 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/780 github.com
- https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/782/files github.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00079.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00103.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00043.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/04/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91498 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/780 github.com
- https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/782/files github.com