CVE-2016-2037

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

5.48% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 92.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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

2016-02-22 15:05Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 23:17Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-01-22

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
• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

2be5111d92c6cf6a91351c27a4286b498797a3872ccd657dfe88fbd0ad844864

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160119 CVE request: out-of-bounds write with cpio 2.11http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/19/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securitytracker.com1035067http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035067vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• www.debian.orgDSA-3483http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3483vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160122 Re: CVE request: out-of-bounds write with cpio 2.11http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2906-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2906-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.securityfocus.com82293http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82293vdb-entryx_refsource_BID