PT-2016-7989 · Debian+1 · Yasr

Published 2016-01-01 · Updated 2026-05-01 · CVE-2016-20041

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.4

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Yasr version 0.6.9-5

Description A buffer overflow occurs when a local attacker provides an oversized argument to the -p parameter. This allows the attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code by using a crafted payload containing junk data, shellcode, and a return address to overwrite the stack.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-20041

Affected Products

Yasr

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-20041 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-20041 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-20041 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-20041 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-20041 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-20041 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/161750 · Telegram Post
• http://yasr.sourceforge.net · Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/yasr-5-buffer-overflow-via-command-line-parameter · Note
• https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39734 · Note