CVE-2016-9427

Publication date 11 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Integer overflow vulnerability in bdwgc before 2016-09-27 allows attackers to cause client of bdwgc denial of service (heap buffer overflow crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via huge allocation.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libgc 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:7.4.2-8ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:7.4.2-7.3ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:7.2d-5ubuntu2.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1:7.1-8ubuntu0.12.04.3

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libgc

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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