CVE-2016-6131

Updated: 2025-08-20 03:10:19.167866

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.


Links NIST CIRCL RHEL Ubuntu

Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x MEDIUM 5.0
CVSS Version 3.x HIGH 7.5

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

CentOS 6 ELS binutils 2.20 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2021:1640621287 2022-05-05 12:03:49
CloudLinux 6 ELS binutils 2.20 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2021:1639670535 2021-12-27 14:17:40
Oracle Linux 6 ELS binutils 2.20 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2021:1639670584 2021-12-16 15:55:33
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS binutils 2.26 7.5 HIGH Released CLSA-2021:1635459139 2021-11-02 21:02:48