CVE-2016-6254
9.1
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 5.7% (pctl 93)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.1), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.1 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 5.7% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2016-08-19 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| collectd | collectd |
| debian | debian linux |
| fedoraproject | fedora |
References
- http://collectd.org/news.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3636
- https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/b589096f907052b3a4da2b9ccc9b0e2e888dfc18
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CM4W5SJ4OTBGINGIN4NJLXCUZAZANO6J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UIZ5UXDOB7BA5NGE2F2I2BL4K6763DHW/
- http://collectd.org/news.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3636
- https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/b589096f907052b3a4da2b9ccc9b0e2e888dfc18
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CM4W5SJ4OTBGINGIN4NJLXCUZAZANO6J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UIZ5UXDOB7BA5NGE2F2I2BL4K6763DHW/
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