UBUNTU-CVE-2026-21996

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-21996
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-21996.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-21996
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-21996
Published
2026-05-01T18:16:00Z
Modified
2026-05-20T16:24:10.824700650Z
Severity
  • 3.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

An unprivileged attacker can reliably trigger a crash of the dtrace process with a malicious ELF binary due to an integer Divide-by-Zero in Pbuildfilesymtab()

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:26.04:LTS / dtrace

Package

Name
dtrace
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/dtrace?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.5-1
2.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "dtrace",
            "binary_version": "2.0.6-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "dtrace-tests",
            "binary_version": "2.0.6-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libdtrace2",
            "binary_version": "2.0.6-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-21996.json"