CVE-2016-4024 (GCVE-0-2016-4024)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-13 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Integer overflow in imlib2 before 1.4.9 on 32-bit platforms allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via large dimensions in an image, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap memory write operation.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| https://git.enlightenment.org/legacy/imlib2.git/c… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://sourceforge.net/p/enlightenment/mailman/m… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-12 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3555 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035573 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86073 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
Date Public
2016-04-06 00:00
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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