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CVE-2016-6131 (GCVE-0-2016-6131)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-07 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:22
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-06-29 00:00
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