CVE-2016-5434 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libalpm, a component of pacman 5.0.1, where a crafted signature file can lead to an infinite loop or out-of-bounds read. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a low attack complexity and the potential for high availability impact, though it requires user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pacman_project:pacman:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.