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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2080-1 iperf3 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Jan 2020

Affected Packages:

iperf3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 827116.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4303.

More information:

An issue has been found in iperf3, an Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool. Bad handling of UTF8/16 strings in an embedded library could cause a denial of service (crash) or execution of arbitrary code by putting special characters in a JSON string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.7-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iperf3 packages.

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