CVE-2016-1234: fedoraproject fedora
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-1234 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 5.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 5Timeline
- 01-06-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the glob implementation in GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.24, when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long name.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
5.44%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
93%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.04 pp
From 5.39% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (sourceware.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu2 products
- eglibc< 2.19-0ubuntu6.10
- glibc< 2.23-0ubuntu6
Debian1 product
- glibc< 2.22-8
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL23
Gnu1 product
- glibc< 2.24
5 vendors · 7 products
References
16 links- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184626.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORAMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00039.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19779X Refsource CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00030.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Show all 16 references
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/…X Refsource MISC
