CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5434
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-399
Description
libalpm, as used in pacman 5.0.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or out-of-bounds read) via a crafted signature file.
Affected configurations
• pacman project pacman 5.0.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/11/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/14/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/9 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/11/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/14/6 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/9 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory