ubuntu · CVE-2016-20043

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Priority: medium Published: 2026-03-28 12:16:00 UTC Updated: 2026-04-01 04:12:33 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-20043 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (nrss), 6 status rows across 6 suites (bionic, jammy, noble, questing, upstream, xenial): DNE 3, needs-triage 3.

Description:

NRSS RSS Reader 0.3.9-1 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the -F parameter. Attackers can craft a malicious input with 256 bytes of padding followed by a controlled EIP value to overwrite the return address and achieve code execution.

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