What is CVE-2016-3179?

CVE-2016-3179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Miniupnp Project Minissdpd, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-24.

How severe is CVE-2016-3179?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Use After Free in Miniupnp Project Minissdpd

CVE-2016-3179

The processRequest function in minissdpd.c in MiniSSDPd 1.2.20130907-3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free and daemon crash) via vectors related to error handling.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

Published 2017-03-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (22.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 22.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Miniupnp Project Minissdpd — versions 1.2.20130907-3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-416 — Use After Free

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/16/13 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/commit/140ee8d2204b383279f854802b27bdb41c1d5d1a (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
speirofr.appspot.com/files/advisory/SPADV-2016-02.md (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3179?: CVE-2016-3179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Miniupnp Project Minissdpd, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2016-3179?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.