ubuntu · CVE-2016-6254

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-08-19 21:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:38 UTC

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

Tracker summary

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.

Description:

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.

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