suse · CVE-2016-2851

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:40:15 UTC Updated: 2025-03-25 01:14:18 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2851 severity moderate: SUSE including 12 source package names (libotr, libotr-devel, …), 56 product×package rows across 37 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, … (37 product lines)): Fixed 42, Known Not Affected 14.

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.

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