USN-4788-1

It was discovered that iperf mishandled certain UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / iperf3

Package

Name: iperf3
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/iperf3@3.0.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.0.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

3.*

3.0.11-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.0.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "iperf3"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.0.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "libiperf-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.0.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "libiperf0"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-4303",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}