Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2851

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-04-07 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 23:32:21
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.