Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4491

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The dprintcomp function in cp-demangle.c in libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault and crash via a crafted binary,...

RHEL 6 : gcc (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - gcc: Exploitable buffer overflow CVE-2016-2226 - Use-after-free vulnerability in libiberty allows remote...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4336-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated gdb packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that gdb incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause gdb to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2016-4491, CVE-2016-6131...

MGASA-2018-0035 Updated gdb packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that gdb incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause gdb to crash, resulting in a denial of service CVE-2016-4491, CVE-2016-6131...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libiberty vulnerabilities (USN-3368-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3368-1 advisory. It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled certain string operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3368-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Valgrind vulnerabilities (USN-3337-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3337-1 advisory. It was discovered that Valgrind incorrectly handled certain string operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a...

USN-3337-1 valgrind vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Valgrind incorrectly handled certain string operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu...

USN-3337-1: Valgrind vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Valgrind incorrectly handled certain string operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu...

CVE-2016-4491

CVE-2016-4491 : The connected record confirms a vulnerability in GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) involving the libiberty demangler. It is a stack-based buffer overflow caused by an infinite recursion in d_print_comp, which could enable a crash or denial of service when processing a crafted input. T...

CVE-2016-4491

The dprintcomp function in cp-demangle.c in libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault and crash via a crafted binary, which triggers infinite recursion and a buffer overflow, related to a node having "itself as ancestor more than once."...