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CVE-2015-5177

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—
Severity7.5High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability6.31 %higher than 94% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

Double free vulnerability in the SLPDKnownDAAdd function in slpd/slpd_knownda.c in OpenSLP 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted package.

CVSS

Base score
7.5
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
6.31 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
94
Score date
10/22/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian LinuxOpenslp — Openslp

CWEs

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