CVE-2016-4478

7.5 highEPSS 2.3%

High (7.5). EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the xmlrpc_char_encode function in modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c in Atheme before 7.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XMLRPC response encoding.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2016-06-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

atheme:atheme
debian:debian_linux
opensuse:leap
opensuse:opensuse

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00061.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3586
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/1
https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/87580d767868360d2fed503980129504da84b63e

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