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CVE-2016-2851

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 25.40% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-04-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2016-2851
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
25.40%

Original NVD Description

Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.