CVE-2016-10254

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

1.57% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 73.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-03-23 16:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 03:14Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-03-22

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

d3dee160a46238f85d9cf43aa6a159121ab67ecc916a7cbb4c931affbfedbb52

• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3670-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170322 Re: elfutils: memory allocation failure in allocate_elf (common.h)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201710-10https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-allocate_elf-common-h/x_refsource_MISC
• lists.fedorahosted.org[elfutils-devel] 20161024 [PATCH] libelf: Always set ELF maxsize when reading an ELF file for sanity checks.https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/message/EJWVY7TMRDEMWPAPNVU3V4MZYG5HANF2/mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST