CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-4912

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 27, 2017 | Modified: Jul 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
5.4 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

The _xrealloc function in xlsp_xmalloc.c in OpenSLP 2.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a large number of crafted packets, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openslp Openslp 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Openslp-dfsg Ubuntu wily *

Potential Mitigations

References