ubuntu · CVE-2016-3179

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-24 15:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:42:42 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3179 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (minissdpd), 10 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 5, released 3, not-affected 2.

Description:

The processRequest function in minissdpd.c in MiniSSDPd 1.2.20130907-3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free and daemon crash) via vectors related to error handling.

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