CVE-2016-4491
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4491
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4491.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4491
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-02-24T20:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The dprintcomp 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."
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