Vulnerability CVE-2016-4021
Published: 2016-05-26

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
pgpdump 0.29 Endless Loop
Klaus Eisentraut
20.04.2016

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Pgpdump project -> Pgpdump 
Pgpdump -> Pgpdump 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt
https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html
Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top