UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2851

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2851
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2851.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2851
Upstream
Related
  • USN-2926-1
Published
2016-03-09T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:43:40Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libotr

Package

Name
libotr
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libotr@4.0.0-2.2ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.0-2.2ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.0-2.2
4.0.0-2.2ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.0-2.2ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "libotr5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.0-2.2ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "libotr5-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.0-2.2ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "libotr5-dev"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2851.json"