CVE-2016-5104 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5104?

CVE-2016-5104 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu 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

The socket_create function in common/socket.c in libimobiledevice and libusbmuxd allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and communicate with services on iOS devices by connecting to an IPv4 TCP socket.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5104?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Libimobiledevice Libimobiledevice, Libimobiledevice Libusbmuxd, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5104?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2016-5104 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5104 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
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5104, DLA-2121-1, DLA-2122-1, GHSA-v8rh-c9vm-p8g7, MGASA-2016-0229, SUSE-SU-2016:1639-1 and 4 more.