Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4491

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-02-24 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:32:25
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The d_print_comp 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."