Debian Security Advisory
DLA-2256-1 libtirpc -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 28 Jun 2020
- Affected Packages:
- libtirpc
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4429.
- More information:
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It was discovered that libtiprc, a transport-independent RPC library, could be used for a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact by a stack-based buffer overflow due to a flood of crafted ICMP and UDP packets.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5-1+deb8u3.We recommend that you upgrade your libtirpc packages.
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