CVE-2010-5111

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in readline.c in Echoping 6.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted reply in the (1) TLS_readline or (2) SSL_readline function, related to the EchoPingHttps Smokeping probe.

Affected products

Echoping Project Echoping: 6.0.2

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-07.xml
http://sourceforge.net/p/echoping/bugs/55
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/17/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/21/9
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606808
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-07.xml
http://sourceforge.net/p/echoping/bugs/55
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/17/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/21/9
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606808

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