Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mapserver (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-MAPSERVER-619050
- published8 Dec 2016
- disclosed8 Dec 2016
Introduced: 8 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9839 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mapserver package and not the mapserver package as distributed by Ubuntu.
In MapServer before 7.0.3, OGR driver error messages are too verbose and may leak sensitive information if data connection fails.