CVE-2016-6323
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.1%Published: 10/7/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6323
Description
The makecontext function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.25 creates execution contexts incompatible with the unwinder on ARM EABI (32-bit) platforms, which might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (hang), as demonstrated by applications compiled using gccgo, related to backtrace generation.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.24-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |