PT-2017-8506 · Gnu+1 · Libiberty+1

Marcel Böhme · Published 2017-02-24 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2016-4491

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libiberty (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a segmentation fault and crash, via a crafted binary. This is triggered by infinite recursion and a buffer overflow, related to a node having itself as ancestor more than once.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4491

MGASA-2017-0222

MGASA-2018-0034

MGASA-2018-0035

USN-3337-1

USN-3367-1

USN-3368-1

USN-4336-2

Affected Products

Ubuntu

Libiberty

References · 477

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4492 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9744 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4487 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17360 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-00670 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17794 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9748 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/05/5 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14940 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17985 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7209 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9751 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19931 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17121 · Security Note