CVE-2016-6254

Publication date

2016-08-19 21:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network packet.