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SUSE: CVE-2016-6255: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-6255: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/06/2017
Modified
05/10/2021

Description

Portable UPnP SDK (aka libupnp) before 1.6.21 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files in the webroot via a POST request without a registered handler.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libupnp-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-libupnp-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libupnp6
  • suse-upgrade-libupnp6-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libupnp6-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-libupnp6-debuginfo-32bit

References

  • DLA-597-1
  • DSA-3736
  • 92050
  • GLSA-201701-52
  • CVE-2016-6255

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