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LIN8-4593 : Security Advisory - collectd - CVE-2016-6254

Created: Aug 28, 2016 Updated: Dec 3, 2018

Resolved Date: Sep 11, 2016

Found In Version: 8.0

Fix Version: 8.0.0.10

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8

Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-6254

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CVE-2016-6254