CVE-2016-4429 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-4429?

CVE-2016-4429 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 Jun 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the clntudp_call function in sunrpc/clnt_udp.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly unspecified other impact via a flood of crafted ICMP and UDP packets.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4429?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnu Glibc, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4429?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-4429 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4429 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4429, DLA-2256-1, GHSA-9qmm-hf5x-mr4g, MGASA-2016-0270, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4429.