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CVE-2016-5827

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The icaltime_from_string function in libical 0.47 and 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a crafted string to the icalparser_parse_string function.

Affected products

• Libical Project Libical: 0.47, 1.0.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/25/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91459
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/25/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91459
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043

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