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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-9400

The CClient::ProcessServerPacket method in engine/client/client.cpp in Teeworlds before 0.6.4 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving snap handling.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:12 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-9400

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Feb 2017, 16:59 UTC

The CClient::ProcessServerPacket method in engine/client/client.cpp in Teeworlds before 0.6.4 allows remote servers to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving snap handling.

osv:CVE-2016-9400
Complete source record
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