CVE-2016-6323

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-284 Improper Access Control

Publication date:

07/10/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The makecontext function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.25 creates execution contexts incompatible with the unwinder on ARM EABI (32-bit) platforms, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang), as demonstrated by applications compiled using gccgo, related to backtrace generation.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc::::::::		2.24 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc::::::::		2.24 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:::::::*

CVE-2016-6323

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools