PT-2016-5809 · None · Pgpdump

Klaus Eisentraut · Published 2016-04-29 · Updated 2016-06-15 · CVE-2016-4021

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pgpdump versions prior to 0.30

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop and CPU consumption, via crafted input. This is demonstrated by the string xa3x03.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.30, update to version 0.30 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the input to the read binary function to prevent crafted input from causing a denial of service.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4021

DLA-768-1

MGASA-2016-0157

Affected Products

Pgpdump

References · 17

• 🔥 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt · Exploit
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4021 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0157.html · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4021 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0157 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16 · Note