VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8597

critical
Published 2016-10-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Buffer overflow in the csp_sfp_recv_fp in csp_sfp.c in the libcsp library v1.4 and earlier allows hostile components with network access to the SFP underlying network layers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted SFP packets.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/GomSpace/libcsp/pull/80

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libcsplibcsp{"endIncluding":"1.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.