ubuntu · CVE-2016-2226

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Priority: low Published: 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-11 07:38:16 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2226 low priority: Ubuntu including 11 source packages (binutils, binutils-h8300-hms, …), 264 status rows across 24 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 119, ignored 71, DNE 33, needed 22, needs-triage 10, released 9.

Description:

Integer overflow in the string_appends function in cplus-dem.c in libiberty allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted executable, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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