CVE-2016-9427

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-9427
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-12 02:59:16 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionInteger 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.031160000 probability, percentile 0.869310000 (date 2026-05-11)

Problem Types: CWE-119 | CWE-190 | n/a

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary9.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bdwgc Project Bdwgc All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 42.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2966-1] libgc security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2016:3126-1: moderate: Security update for gc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
w3m Multiple Security Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - Re: CVE request: w3m - multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
integer overflow in GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC · Issue #135 · ivmai/bdwgc · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch
openSUSE-SU-2016:3177-1: moderate: Security update for gc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179165 Debian Security Update for libgc (DLA 2966-1)
  • 671114 EulerOS Security Update for gc (EulerOS-SA-2019-2526)
  • 904842 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for boost (12300)

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