ubuntu · CVE-2017-7401

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-04-03 14:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:37:34 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7401 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (collectd), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, ignored 4, released 3.

Description:

Incorrect interaction of the parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions in network.c in collectd 5.7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) of a collectd instance (configured with "SecurityLevel None" and with empty "AuthFile" options) via a crafted UDP packet.

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