ubuntu · CVE-2016-2851

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:59:03 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2851 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libotr), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily): released 4.

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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