PT-2017-8606 · Openslp+2 · Openslp+2

Yuguang Cai · Published 2016-06-10 · Updated 2025-01-28 · CVE-2016-4912

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 OpenSLP version 2.0.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This is triggered by a memory allocation failure when handling a large number of crafted packets.

Recommendations For OpenSLP version 2.0.0, consider implementing packet filtering or rate limiting to reduce the risk of exploitation until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2751

AZL-36966

AZL-7319

CVE-2016-4912

MGASA-2016-0222

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10065-1

ROSA-SA-2025-2659

SUSE-SU-2016:2661-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2661-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0100-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0100-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Openslp

Suse

References · 24

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329295 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-7319 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0100-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10065-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-36966 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0222 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4912 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4912 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2661-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0222.html · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/FGW44JV455TRJ2NZQTEP76JKMFFO2JGS · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3609 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4912 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1035916 · Note