Description
The demangler in GNU Libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, stack overflow, and crash) via a cycle in the references of remembered mangled types.
Published: 2017-02-07
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-552-1 binutils security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7065 The demangler in GNU Libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, stack overflow, and crash) via a cycle in the references of remembered mangled types.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3337-1 Valgrind vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3367-1 gdb vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3368-1 libiberty vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4336-2 GNU binutils vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:22:20.418Z

Reserved: 2016-06-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-6131

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-02-07T15:59:00.367

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-6131

cve-icon Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2016-06-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-6131 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses