CVE-2016-5301

Upstream information

CVE-2016-5301 at MITRE

Description

The parse_chunk_header function in libtorrent before 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) HTTP response or possibly a (2) UPnP broadcast.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	5	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network	Network
Access Complexity	Low	Medium
Authentication	None	None
Confidentiality Impact	None	None
Integrity Impact	None	None
Availability Impact	Partial	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 983228 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2016:1635-1, published Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:07:43 +0200 (CEST)
• openSUSE-SU-2016:2283-1, published Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:08:37 +0200 (CEST)