UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8597

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8597

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8597.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8597

Upstream

CVE-2016-8597

Published

2016-10-28T15:59:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:45:55Z

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

Buffer overflow in the cspsfprecvfp in cspsfp.c in the libcsp library v1.4 and earlier allows hostile components with network access to the SFP underlying network layers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted SFP packets.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libcsp

Package

Name: libcsp
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcsp@1.4+fdd49b7+dfsg-3build1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.4+fdd49b7+dfsg-3

1.4+fdd49b7+dfsg-3build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4+fdd49b7+dfsg-3build1",
            "binary_name": "libcsp-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4+fdd49b7+dfsg-3build1",
            "binary_name": "libcsp-source"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.4+fdd49b7+dfsg-3build1",
            "binary_name": "libcsp1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8597.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / libcsp