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CVE-2016-4478

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the xmlrpc_char_encode function in modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c in Atheme before 7.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XMLRPC response encoding.

Affected products

• Atheme: through 7.2.6
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1
• https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1
• https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e

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