CVE-2016-4478 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Atheme IRC services via a buffer overflow in XMLRPC response encoding.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-4478?
CVE-2016-4478 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Jun 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Buffer overflow in the xmlrpc_char_encode function in modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c in Atheme before 7.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XMLRPC response encoding.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4478?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Atheme Atheme, Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.
How do I fix CVE-2016-4478?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2016-4478 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4478 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4478, DSA-3586-1, GHSA-f9c4-56cj-69qg, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4478.