CVE-2016-6131

NameCVE-2016-6131
DescriptionThe demangler in GNU Libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, stack overflow, and crash) via a cycle in the references of remembered mangled types.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-552-1
Debian Bugs840889

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
binutils (PTS)bullseye2.35.2-2fixed
bookworm2.40-2fixed
sid, trixie2.43.50.20241126-3fixed
ht (PTS)sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye2.1.0+repack1-5fixed
libiberty (PTS)bullseye20210106-1fixed
bookworm20230104-1fixed
sid, trixie20241020-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
binutilssourcewheezy2.22-8+deb7u3DLA-552-1
binutilssource(unstable)2.27.51.20161102-1low
htsource(unstable)2.1.0+repack1-2low
libibertysource(unstable)20161017-1low840889

Notes

[jessie] - libiberty <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - ht <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - ht <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71696
https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=239143

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