ubuntu · CVE-2016-7544

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Priority: low Published: 2017-01-30 21:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:10:40 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7544 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libcrypto++), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 4.

Description:

Crypto++ 5.6.4 incorrectly uses Microsoft's stack-based _malloca and _freea functions. The library will request a block of memory to align a table in memory. If the table is later reallocated, then the wrong pointer could be freed.

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