ubuntu · CVE-2016-20038

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Priority: medium Published: 2026-03-28 12:15:00 UTC Updated: 2026-04-01 04:13:04 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-20038 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ytree), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 7.

Description:

yTree 1.94-1.1 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an excessively long argument to the application. Attackers can craft a malicious command-line argument containing shellcode and a return address to overwrite the stack and execute code in the application context.

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