vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-6131: binutils, ht, libiberty -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 18, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

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