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CVE-2016-9427
Integer overflow vulnerability in bdwgc before 2016-09-27 allows attackers to cause client of bdwgc denial of service (heap buffer…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 4.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow vulnerability in bdwgc before 2016-09-27 allows attackers to cause client of bdwgc denial of service (heap buffer overflow crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via huge allocation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.1% 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
- openSUSE-SU-2016:3126 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues/135 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 94407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:3177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161118 Re: CVE request: w3m - multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220330 [SECURITY] [DLA 2966-1] libgc security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2016-10237 (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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