FKIE_CVE-2017-16820

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-11-14 21:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:09
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c in the SNMP plugin in collectd before 5.6.3 is susceptible to a double free in a certain error case, which could lead to a crash (or potentially have other impact).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0252
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0299
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0560
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1605
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2615
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/881757Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/d16c24542b2f96a194d43a73c2e5778822b9cb47Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/2291Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/collectd/collectd/releases/tag/collectd-5.6.3Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0252
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0299
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0560
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1605
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2615
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/881757Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/d16c24542b2f96a194d43a73c2e5778822b9cb47Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/2291Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/collectd/collectd/releases/tag/collectd-5.6.3Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201803-10
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
collectd collectd *
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