CVE-2016-8679

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

2.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 86.8% 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:3.1/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

Moderate. 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

2017-02-15 21:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:27Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-10-15

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

5b9483b432e753d30573277fe318b40583eb0d98f4bb15785467ba74e54380db

• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385689x_refsource_CONFIRM
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/06/libdwarf-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-_dwarf_get_size_of_val-dwarf_util-c/x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com93601http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93601vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161015 Re: libdwarf: heap-based buffer overflow in _dwarf_get_size_of_val (dwarf_util.c)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST