Medium
Security advisory
The processRequest function in minissdpd.c in MiniSSDPd 1.2.20130907-3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and daemon crash) via vectors involving a negative length value.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-3178
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The processRequest function in minissdpd.c in MiniSSDPd 1.2.20130907-3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and daemon crash) via vectors involving a negative length value.
osv:CVE-2016-3178
Complete source record
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