CVE-2016-6873 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-6873?

CVE-2016-6873 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Feb 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Self recursion in compact in Facebook HHVM before 3.15.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6873?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Facebook Hhvm.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6873?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6873 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2016-6873 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6873 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-1916 Integer overflow in HHVM Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-1917 Memory corruption in HHVM Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-24025 Integer overflow in HHVM Critical 9.8

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-hj8w-h393-6h4r, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6873.