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CVE-2016-2851
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-07T23:59:09.940 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:44:35.597

Summary

Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

debian — debian_linux

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References

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