PT-2017-8632 · Gnu+1 · Gcc+1

Adam Mariš · Published 2017-06-07 · Updated 2017-06-15 · CVE-2016-4973

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue concerns binaries compiled against targets using the libssp library in GCC for stack smashing protection, which might allow local users to perform buffer overflow attacks due to the lack of the Object Size Checking feature.

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

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4973

ECHO-A343-3595-94E7

Affected Products

Debian

Gcc

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4973 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4973 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4973 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92530 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324759 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/17/6 · Note