PT-2016-7839 · Mapserver · Mapserver

Tbonfort · Published 2016-12-08 · Updated 2023-01-31 · CVE-2016-9839

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MapServer versions prior to 7.0.3

Description The issue is related to the OGR driver in MapServer, where error messages are too verbose. This verbosity may lead to the leakage of sensitive information if a data connection fails.

Recommendations For versions prior to 7.0.3, update to version 7.0.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-9839

DLA-734-1

Affected Products

Mapserver

References · 11

• https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5356 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9839 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9839 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9839 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9839 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9839 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9839 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9839 · Security Note
• https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/4928 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94856 · Note
• https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2016-December/014979.html · Note