CVE-2016-8859

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2016-8859 · Published 13/02/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-8859 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting musl (etalabs).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.4%, higher than 88.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
musl etalabs	`≤ 1.1.15`	No fix 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.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00041.html
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/1 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/19/10 · Mailing List
securityfocus.com/bid/93795 · Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-11
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-43

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