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CVE-2016-8859
Multiple integer overflows in the TRE library and musl libc allow attackers to cause memory corruption via a large number of (1) states or…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 3.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple integer overflows in the TRE library and musl libc allow attackers to cause memory corruption via a large number of (1) states or (2) tags, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 93795 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161018 CVE Request - TRE & musl libc regex integer overflows in buffer size computations (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161029 Re: CVE Request - TRE & musl libc regex integer overflows in buffer size computations (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0554 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-202007-43 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-9684 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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