vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-2226: binutils, ht, libiberty -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 18, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

Integer overflow in the string_appends function in cplus-dem.c in libiberty allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted executable, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-binutilsdebian-upgrade-htdebian-upgrade-libiberty
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