CVE-2016-6254

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6254
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6254.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6254
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-19T21:59:13Z
Modified
2025-10-21T03:53:13.166976Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network 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
Fixed
b589096f907052b3a4da2b9ccc9b0e2e888dfc18

Affected versions

collectd-2.*

collectd-2.0.1

collectd-3.*

collectd-3.10.0
collectd-3.10.1
collectd-3.10.2
collectd-3.10.3
collectd-3.10.4
collectd-3.11.0
collectd-3.11.1
collectd-3.11.2
collectd-3.11.3
collectd-3.11.4
collectd-3.11.5
collectd-3.11.6
collectd-3.11.7
collectd-3.7.0
collectd-3.8.0
collectd-3.8.2
collectd-3.8.3
collectd-3.8.4
collectd-3.9.0
collectd-3.9.1
collectd-3.9.2
collectd-3.9.3
collectd-3.9.4

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-4.0.0-rc9
collectd-4.0.1
collectd-4.0.2
collectd-4.0.3
collectd-4.0.4
collectd-4.0.5
collectd-4.0.6
collectd-4.0.7
collectd-4.0.8
collectd-4.0.9
collectd-4.1.0
collectd-4.1.1
collectd-4.1.2
collectd-4.1.3
collectd-4.1.4
collectd-4.1.5
collectd-4.1.6
collectd-4.10.0
collectd-4.10.1
collectd-4.10.2
collectd-4.10.3
collectd-4.10.4
collectd-4.10.5
collectd-4.10.6
collectd-4.10.7
collectd-4.10.8
collectd-4.10.9
collectd-4.2.0
collectd-4.2.1
collectd-4.2.2
collectd-4.2.3
collectd-4.2.4
collectd-4.2.5
collectd-4.2.6
collectd-4.2.7
collectd-4.3.0
collectd-4.3.0beta0
collectd-4.3.0beta1
collectd-4.3.1
collectd-4.3.2
collectd-4.3.3
collectd-4.3.4
collectd-4.4.0
collectd-4.4.1
collectd-4.4.2
collectd-4.4.3
collectd-4.4.4
collectd-4.4.5
collectd-4.5.0
collectd-4.5.1
collectd-4.5.2
collectd-4.5.3
collectd-4.5.4
collectd-4.6.0
collectd-4.6.1
collectd-4.6.2
collectd-4.6.3
collectd-4.6.4
collectd-4.6.5
collectd-4.7.0
collectd-4.7.1
collectd-4.7.2
collectd-4.7.3
collectd-4.7.4
collectd-4.7.5
collectd-4.8.0
collectd-4.8.1
collectd-4.8.2
collectd-4.8.3
collectd-4.8.4
collectd-4.8.5
collectd-4.9.0
collectd-4.9.1
collectd-4.9.2
collectd-4.9.3
collectd-4.9.4
collectd-4.9.5

collectd-5.*

collectd-5.0.0
collectd-5.0.0-beta0
collectd-5.0.0-beta1
collectd-5.0.1
collectd-5.0.2
collectd-5.0.3
collectd-5.0.4
collectd-5.0.5
collectd-5.1.0
collectd-5.1.1
collectd-5.1.2
collectd-5.1.3
collectd-5.2.0
collectd-5.2.1
collectd-5.2.2
collectd-5.3.0
collectd-5.3.1
collectd-5.3.2
collectd-5.4.0
collectd-5.4.1
collectd-5.4.2

Other

svn-trunk

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/b589096f907052b3a4da2b9ccc9b0e2e888dfc18",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "306965870653954072527171272527053320127",
                "73541933529261276942652323967835559474",
                "211364815091471671335292792811151251480",
                "146709269129839664605757152539845208149",
                "306965870653954072527171272527053320127",
                "73541933529261276942652323967835559474",
                "211364815091471671335292792811151251480",
                "146709269129839664605757152539845208149",
                "248286803577515758494005552179336900362",
                "229961056944906683896744944850171760495",
                "218499929594801873617902212803100804529",
                "277685718875055145822524010164517135514"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "src/network.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-6254-308dc073",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Line"
    },
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/b589096f907052b3a4da2b9ccc9b0e2e888dfc18",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "182876792119635883406710209722823110113",
            "length": 4959.0
        },
        "target": {
            "function": "parse_packet",
            "file": "src/network.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-6254-c3386361",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function"
    }
]