ubuntu · CVE-2016-20044

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Priority: medium Published: 2026-03-28 12:16:00 UTC Updated: 2026-04-01 04:16:04 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-20044 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (pinfo), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 7.

Description:

PInfo 0.6.9-5.1 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the -m parameter. Attackers can craft a malicious input string with 564 bytes of padding followed by a return address to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.

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