CPANSA-Alien-OTR-2016-2851-libotr: Alien-OTR vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2016-04-07T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2016-04-07T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 9.8 Severity Critical
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2851

Vulnerability Description

Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Weakness CWE-119 : Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Alien-OTR equal =4.1.0.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 9.8 Critical
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Thu Apr 7 00:00:00 2016 First release

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