CVE-2016-6254

2016-08-1900:00:00

ubuntu.com

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

9.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

0.054 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.2%

JSON

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in
collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a
crafted network packet.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchcollectd< 5.4.0-3ubuntu2.2+esm1UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchcollectd< 5.5.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1UNKNOWN