CVE-2016-9564

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-11-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Buffer overflow in send_redirect() in Boa Webserver 0.92r allows remote attackers to DoS via an HTTP GET request requesting a long URI with only '/' and '.' characters.

Affected products

Boa: 0.92r

References

http://www.ljcusack.io/cve-2016-9564-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-boa-0-dot-92r
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94599
http://www.ljcusack.io/cve-2016-9564-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-boa-0-dot-92r
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94599

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