CVE-2017-7401

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7401
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7401.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7401
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-04-03T14:59:00.200Z
Modified
2026-04-11T16:24:35.787189Z
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

Incorrect interaction of the parsepacket() and parsepartsignsha256() functions in network.c in collectd 5.7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) of a collectd instance (configured with "SecurityLevel None" and with empty "AuthFile" options) via a crafted UDP packet.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/collectd/collectd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/collectd/collectd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
0c157068b398f336b6478cb24fa05243b49fcda4
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:collectd:collectd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "5.7.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

collectd-2.*
collectd-2.0.1
collectd-3.*
collectd-3.10.0
collectd-3.7.0
collectd-4.*
collectd-4.0.0
collectd-4.0.0-rc10
collectd-4.0.0-rc4
collectd-4.0.0-rc6
collectd-4.0.0-rc7
collectd-4.0.0-rc8
collectd-4.1.0
collectd-4.1.1
collectd-4.10.0
collectd-4.2.0
collectd-4.3.0
collectd-4.3.0beta0
collectd-4.3.0beta1
collectd-4.6.0
collectd-5.*
collectd-5.0.0-beta0
collectd-5.0.0-beta1
collectd-5.1.0
collectd-5.2.0
collectd-5.3.0
collectd-5.5.0
collectd-5.7.0
collectd-5.7.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7401.json"