Critical
Security advisory
Buffer overflow in the csp_sfp_recv_fp in csp_sfp.c in the libcsp library v1.4 and earlier allows hostile components with network access to the SFP underlying network layers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted SFP packets.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8597
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Buffer overflow in the csp_sfp_recv_fp in csp_sfp.c in the libcsp library v1.4 and earlier allows hostile components with network access to the SFP underlying network layers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted SFP packets.
osv:CVE-2016-8597
Complete source record
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