Security Advisory

CVE-2016-20041

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-03-28 11:58:03
Last updated 2026-03-30 17:40:09
Assigner VulnCheck
CVSS score 8.6
State PUBLISHED

Description

Yasr 0.6.9-5 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the -p parameter. Attackers can invoke yasr with a crafted payload containing junk data, shellcode, and a return address to overwrite the stack and trigger code execution.