PT-2016-5971 · Atheme · Atheme

Max Teufel · Published 2016-05-23 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-4478

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Atheme versions prior to 7.2.7

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the xmlrpc char encode function, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This is achieved through vectors related to XMLRPC response encoding.

Recommendations For versions prior to 7.2.7, update to version 7.2.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4478

DSA-3586-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10515-1

Affected Products

Atheme

References · 20

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/atheme-services · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3586-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3586-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4478 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10515-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4478 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4478 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4478 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e · Note