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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-6131: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-6131: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/07/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-bcc-0-16-17-0-175-3-33-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-30-1-0-175-3-33-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-clisp-2-49-0-175-3-33-0-3-0

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