critical
CVE-2016-6254
collectd: heap overflow in the network plugin
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Ubuntu (medium).
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted network packet.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| alpine 3.10 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.11 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.12 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.13 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.14 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.15 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.20 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
Show all 81 entries from 30 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| alpine 3.10 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.11 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.12 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.13 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.14 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.15 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.16 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.17 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.18 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.19 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.20 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.21 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.22 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.23 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.24 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.4 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.5 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.6 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine 3.9 | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| alpine edge | collectd | 5.5.2-r0 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-amqp | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-apache | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-bind | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-curl | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-curl_xml | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-dbi | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-debuginfo | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-dns | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-email | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-generic-jmx | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-gmond | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-ipmi | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-iptables | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-ipvs | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-java | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-lvm | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-memcachec | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-mysql | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-netlink | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-nginx | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-notify_email | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-postgresql | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-rrdcached | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-rrdtool | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-snmp | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-varnish | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | collectd-web | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| amazon linux 1 | perl-Collectd | 5.4.1-1.11.amzn1 |
| debian 11 | collectd | 5.5.2-1 |
| debian 12 | collectd | 5.5.2-1 |
| debian 13 | collectd | 5.5.2-1 |
| debian 7 | collectd | 5.1.0-3+deb7u1 |
| debian 8 | collectd | 5.4.1-6+deb8u1 |
| echo | collectd | 5.5.2-1 |
| Red Hat | collectd | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-amqp | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-apache | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-curl | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-curl_json | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-curl_xml | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-dbi | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-dns | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-generic-jmx | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-ipmi | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-iptables | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-ipvs | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-java | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-lvm | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-mysql | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-netlink | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-ping | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-rrdcached | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-rrdtool | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-sensors | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-snmp | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-virt | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | collectd-write_riemann | no fix listed |
| Red Hat | perl-Collectd | no fix listed |
| ubuntu 14.04-ESM | collectd | 5.4.0-3ubuntu2.2+esm1 |
| ubuntu 16.04-ESM | collectd | 5.5.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
References
- http://collectd.org/news.shtml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3636
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6254
- https://github.com/collectd/collectd/commit/b589096f907052b3a4da2b9ccc9b0e2e888dfc18
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CM4W5SJ4OTBGINGIN4NJLXCUZAZANO6J/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UIZ5UXDOB7BA5NGE2F2I2BL4K6763DHW/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6254
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4793-1