Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38023

Double Free in OpenSLP and Debian Linux - CVE-2015-5177

Published: October 22, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38023

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5177

CWE-ID: CWE-415

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Double free vulnerability in the SLPDKnownDAAdd function in slpd/slpd_knownda.c in OpenSLP 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted package.

Affected software

OpenSLP
Debian Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2015-5177

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

http://sourceforge.net/p/openslp/mercurial/ci/2bc15d0494f886d9c4fe342d23bc160605aea51d/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76635
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033719
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251064
https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3353

Related Security Bulletins