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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 7, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-2851

CVE-2016-2851

Description

Integer overflow in proto.c in libotr before 4.1.1 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a series of large OTR messages, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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