USN-3059-1

It was discovered that xmlrpc-epi incorrectly handled lengths in the simplestring_addn function. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using xmlrpc-epi such as PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / xmlrpc-epi

Package

Name: xmlrpc-epi
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xmlrpc-epi@0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.54.2-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libxmlrpc-epi-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.54.2-1.1ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libxmlrpc-epi0"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3059-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2016-6296"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}