vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-d6bbf2d8-2cfc-11e6-800b-080027468580 (CVE-2016-4303): iperf3 -- buffer overflow

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 8, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

ESnet reports: A malicious process can connect to an iperf3 server and, by sending a malformed message on the control channel, corrupt the server process's heap area. This can lead to a crash (and a denial of service), or theoretically a remote code execution as the user running the iperf3 server. A malicious iperf3 server could potentially mount a similar attack on an iperf3 client.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-iperf3
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