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CVE-2016-9427

Publication date 11 December 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Integer overflow vulnerability in bdwgc before 2016-09-27 allows attackers to cause client of bdwgc denial of service (heap buffer overflow crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via huge allocation.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libgc 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:7.4.2-8ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:7.4.2-7.3ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:7.2d-5ubuntu2.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1:7.1-8ubuntu0.12.04.3

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libgc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H