CVE-2016-10255

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

1.65% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 74.8% 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

c94ae45ec64090b89f83f87c98541615772a7550387e0dbcd3621d4414d4686a

• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3670-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3670-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387584x_refsource_CONFIRM
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201710-10https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-10vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170322 Re: elfutils: memory allocation failure in __libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock (elf_getdata.c)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/22/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedorahosted.org[elfutils-devel] 20161021 [PATCH] libelf: Sanity check offset and size before trying to malloc and read data.https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/elfutils-devel%40lists.fedorahosted.org/thread/Q4LE47FPEVRZANMV6JE2NMHYO4H5MHGJ/mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/04/elfutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-__libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock-elf_getdata-c/x_refsource_MISC