Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : iperf3 vulnerability (USN-4788-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4788-1 advisory. It was discovered that iperf mishandled certain UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service or possibly...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4788-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2080-1] iperf3 security update

Package : iperf3 Version : 3.0.7-1+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-4303 Debian Bug : 827116 An issue has been found in iperf3, an Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool. Bad handling of UTF8/16 strings in an embedded library could cause a denial of service crash or execution of arbitrary code by...

ESnet iPerf3 JSON parse_string UTF Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2016-4303)

DESCRIPTION An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the JSON handling functionality of ESnet iPerf3. A specially crafted JSON string can lead to buffer overflow on the heap resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send an unauthenticated packet to any reachable...

CVE-2016-4303

CVE-2016-4303 affects iperf/iperf3 and the cJSON-UTF8/UTF-16 parsing path; the vulnerability allows denial of service or arbitrary code execution via a crafted JSON string that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. The connected docs confirm downstream patches: upstream releases addressed the is...

openSUSE Security Update : iperf (openSUSE-2016-1006)

iperf was updated to the the following vulnerability : - CVE-2016-4303: A malicious client could have triggered a buffer overflow / heap corruption issue by sending a specially crafted JSON string, and possibly execute arbitrary code boo984453 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...