Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3636 collectd - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Emilien Gaspar discovered that collectd, a statistics collection andmonitoring daemon, incorrectly processed incoming networkpackets. This resulted in a heap overflow, allowing a remote attackerto either cause a DoS via application crash, or potentially executearbitrary code.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3636