CVE-2016-6131

HIGH

GNU Libiberty - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0176
EPSS Percentile 82.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-20
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/libiberty

Timeline

Published Feb 07, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026