CVE-2016-4021
First published: Thu May 26 2016(Updated: )
The read_binary function in buffer.c in pgpdump before 0.30 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via crafted input, as demonstrated by the \xa3\x03 string.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =22 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =23 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =24 | |
| Pgpdump Project Pgpdump | <=0.29 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99
- https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/weakness
- agent/author
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/type
- agent/event
- agent/description
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/fedoraproject
- canonical/fedoraproject fedora
- version/fedoraproject fedora/22
- version/fedoraproject fedora/23
- version/fedoraproject fedora/24
- vendor/pgpdump project
- canonical/pgpdump project pgpdump
- version/pgpdump project pgpdump/0.29