CVE-2016-5301 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the application via crafted HTTP responses or UPnP broadcasts in the libtorrent library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-5301?
CVE-2016-5301 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 30 Jun 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The parse_chunk_header function in libtorrent before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) HTTP response or possibly a (2) UPnP broadcast.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5301?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Arvidn Libtorrent, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.
How do I fix CVE-2016-5301?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-5301 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5301 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5301, DLA-511-1, GHSA-pwqc-6qvc-cw6x, MGASA-2016-0234, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5301, USN-4790-1.