CVE-2016-4021 — Vulnetix

CVE-2016-4021 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 2.16% · 84.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

2.16%

84.6th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	pgpdump	0, 0.27-1, 0.28-1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	pgpdump	0, 0.29-1, 0.28-1

Exploit Intelligence

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99 (nist-nvd)
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt (nist-nvd)
FEDORA-2016-5733ad20f5 (circl)
FEDORA-2016-8f4b54b005 (circl)
FEDORA-2016-6fd7a31d36 (circl)
https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16 (circl)

Timeline

May 26, 2016 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
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Sep 7, 2023 EPSS Score
Oct 29, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4021 third-party-advisory
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4021 third-party-advisory

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