CVE-2016-6831

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

1.76% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 77.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

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

2017-01-10 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:43Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-08-17

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

9006f66f32552a05b2d969b80295a83332a58d99500391864bf2fce405fbf4f8

• www.securityfocus.com92550http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.nongnu.org[chicken-announce] 20160812 [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in process-execute and process-spawnhttp://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST