FKIE_CVE-2016-4021

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-26 14:59 - Updated: 2026-05-06 22:30
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txtExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txtExploit
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 22
fedoraproject fedora 23
fedoraproject fedora 24
pgpdump_project pgpdump *
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