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CVE-2016-8859

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the TRE library and musl libc allow attackers to cause memory corruption via a large number of (1) states or (2) tags, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.

Affected products

• Etalabs Musl: through 1.1.15

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00041.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93795
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-11
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-43
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00041.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93795
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-11
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-43

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