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CVE-2016-5434

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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 products

• Pacman Project Pacman: 5.0.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/11/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/14/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/9
• https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/11/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/14/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/9
• https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html

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