CVE-2016-4478

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4478
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4478.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4478
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-06-13T19:59:09Z
Modified
2025-09-16T06:20:30.693651Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Buffer overflow in the xmlrpccharencode function in modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c in Atheme before 7.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XMLRPC response encoding.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / atheme-services

Package

Name
atheme-services
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/atheme-services?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.0.7-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / atheme-services

Package

Name
atheme-services
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/atheme-services?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.0.7-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / atheme-services

Package

Name
atheme-services
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/atheme-services?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.0.7-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / atheme-services

Package

Name
atheme-services
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/atheme-services?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.0.7-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/atheme/atheme

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/atheme/atheme
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e

Affected versions

atheme-6.*

atheme-6.0.0-alpha1

atheme-7.*

atheme-7.2.0
atheme-7.2.0-beta1
atheme-7.2.0-beta2
atheme-7.2.0-rc1
atheme-7.2.0-rc2
atheme-7.2.1
atheme-7.2.2
atheme-7.2.3
atheme-7.2.4
atheme-7.2.5
atheme-7.2.6

atheme-services-3.*

atheme-services-3.0.0
atheme-services-3.0.1
atheme-services-3.0.2
atheme-services-3.0.3

atheme-services-4.*

atheme-services-4.0.0
atheme-services-4.0.1

atheme-services-5.*

atheme-services-5.0
atheme-services-5.0-beta1
atheme-services-5.0.1
atheme-services-5.1-rc1
atheme-services-5.1.0
atheme-services-5.1.1
atheme-services-5.2.0

atheme-services-6.*

atheme-services-6.0.0
atheme-services-6.0.0-alpha2
atheme-services-6.0.0-alpha3
atheme-services-6.0.0-alpha4
atheme-services-6.0.0-alpha5
atheme-services-6.0.0-alpha6
atheme-services-6.0.0-alpha7
atheme-services-6.0.0-beta1
atheme-services-6.0.0-beta2
atheme-services-6.0.0-beta3
atheme-services-6.0.0-rc1
atheme-services-6.0.0-rc2

atheme-services-7.*

atheme-services-7.0-alpha1
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha10
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha11
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha13
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha13.37
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha14
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha2
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha3
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha4
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha5
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha6
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha7
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha8
atheme-services-7.0.0-alpha9
atheme-services-7.0.0-beta1
atheme-services-7.0.0-beta2
atheme-services-7.1.0-alpha1

Database specific 

{
    "vanir_signatures": [
        {
            "digest": {
                "line_hashes": [
                    "42205439419379173217561027574847435756",
                    "279842839254015645750451448363378502239",
                    "130012205762668577428285411191529094442",
                    "83917961357696884801576035593535001229",
                    "211077350756679990206601574942213543167"
                ],
                "threshold": 0.9
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "id": "CVE-2016-4478-34f02fe3",
            "source": "https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e",
            "signature_type": "Line",
            "target": {
                "file": "modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c"
            }
        },
        {
            "digest": {
                "function_hash": "291135090142418443225470849783248172328",
                "length": 795.0
            },
            "deprecated": false,
            "signature_version": "v1",
            "id": "CVE-2016-4478-c2d77b15",
            "source": "https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e",
            "signature_type": "Function",
            "target": {
                "function": "xmlrpc_char_encode",
                "file": "modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c"
            }
        }
    ]
}