CVE-2016-5434
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
libalpm, as used in pacman 5.0.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or out-of-bounds read) via a crafted signature file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| pacman_project | pacman | 5.0.1 | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/11/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/9
- https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/11/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/21/9
- https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html
CWEs
CWE-125 CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.