CVE-2016-4021

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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
Related
Published
2016-05-26T14:59:01.167Z
Modified
2026-03-15T14:19:05.240572Z
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

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
24de1785eae5b992c5decae70263422c0f31934a
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.29"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.01
v0.02
v0.03
v0.04
v0.05
v0.06
v0.07
v0.08
v0.09
v0.10
v0.11
v0.12
v0.13
v0.14
v0.15
v0.16
v0.17
v0.18
v0.19
v0.20
v0.21
v0.22
v0.23
v0.24
v0.25
v0.26
v0.27
v0.28
v0.29

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "22"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "23"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "24"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4021.json"