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CVE-2016-9427

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Bdwgc Project Bdwgc: through 7.4.4
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1, 42.2
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00089.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00115.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
• https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues/135
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00039.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00089.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00115.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94407
• https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues/135
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00039.html

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