View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
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CVE-2016-6254 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (collectd), 16 status rows across 16 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, ignored 5, released 3.
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.