Memory corruption in Gnu - CVE-2016-10713

 

Memory corruption in Gnu - CVE-2016-10713

Published: February 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10656
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10713
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Gnu

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds access within pch_write_line() in pch.c. A local attacker can supply a specially crafted input, trigger memory corruption and cause the system to crash.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-10713

Update to version 2.7.6-1.

Sources