CVE-2016-6254

Published August 19th, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

6.4

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network packet.

collectd/collectd

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