CVE-2016-4021
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4021
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4021.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4021
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-05-26T14:59:01.167Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T05:48:11.731067811Z
- 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
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The read_binary function in buffer.c in pgpdump before 0.30 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via crafted input, as demonstrated by the \xa3\x03 string.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "source": "CPE_STRING", "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "22" }, { "last_affected": "22" }, { "introduced": "23" }, { "last_affected": "23" }, { "introduced": "24" }, { "last_affected": "24" } ] } ] }- References
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- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html
- https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt
Affected packages
Git / github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pgpdump_project:pgpdump:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "source": "CPE_RANGE", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "0.29" } ] }