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CVE-2016-7567 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the SLPFoldWhiteSpace function in common/slp_compare.c in OpenSLP 2.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact…

published 2017-01-23 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8420

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.4%
EPSS 12.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the SLPFoldWhiteSpace function in common/slp_compare.c in OpenSLP 2.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted string.

Patch / fix

  • openslp SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +2 more 2.0.0-18.2.1
  • openslp SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 +1 more 2.0.0-17.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0100-1SUSE-SU-2016:2661-1

  • openslp openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.0-8.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10065-1

  • openslp CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 2.0.0-26

azure linux advisories AZL-36967AZL-7320

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7567 updated cvss 3.7

openslp: memory corruption due to possible overflow in SLPFoldWhiteSpace in common/slp_compare.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openslp, openslp-server Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openslp, openslp-server
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-45804)

Exploit prediction

12.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-45804 OpenSLP 2.0.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities local, 2018-11-07

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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