Security Advisory

CVE-2016-20044

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-03-28 11:58:05
Last updated 2026-07-15 01:23:17
Assigner VulnCheck
CVSS score 8.6
State PUBLISHED

Description

PInfo 0.6.9-5.1 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the -m parameter. Attackers can craft a malicious input string with 564 bytes of padding followed by a return address to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.