CVE-2016-3977

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

2.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 80.5% 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

2016-04-21 14:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 00:10Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-04-07

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-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

7b87ed276f1ba1ff278bcd0b665896bf5ec4fde71448a1d0e6ee6d5ef7a315ae

• www.securityfocus.com88103http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88103vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1118http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00084.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• sourceforge.nethttps://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/87/x_refsource_CONFIRM
• sourceforge.nethttps://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/ea8dbc5786862a3e16a5acfa3d24e2c2f608cd88/x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1111http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00079.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• bugs.fihttp://bugs.fi/fuzzing/index.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1219http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00019.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325771x_refsource_CONFIRM
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4107-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4107-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU