CVE-2016-2851

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

25.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 97.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-04-07 23:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 23:32Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-03-06

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

e5fd4d6a1096498957eb3aa17005fe57592cb03da057e14256f97a14e6931823

• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2926-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2926-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.securityfocus.com20160309 Advisory X41-2016-001: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in "libotr"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537745/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• www.debian.orgDSA-3512http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3512vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-10https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-10vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.exploit-db.com39550https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39550/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• www.securityfocus.com84285http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84285vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• seclists.org20160309 Advisory X41-2016-001: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in "libotr"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/21mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
• www.x41-dsec.dehttps://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2016-001-libotr/x_refsource_MISC
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0708http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00021.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.cypherpunks.ca[OTR-users] 20160309 Security Advisory: upgrade to libotr 4.1.1https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2016-March/002581.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0732http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00030.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE