CVE - CVE-2016-4021

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-4021	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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
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BUGTRAQ:20160418 CVE-2016-4021: pgpdump 0.29 - Endless loop parsing specially crafted input (SYSS-2016-030) URL:http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99 CONFIRM:https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16 FEDORA:FEDORA-2016-5733ad20f5 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184689.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2016-6fd7a31d36 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184617.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2016-8f4b54b005 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183750.html MISC:https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20160414	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160414)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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