CVE-2016-5824 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in libical 1.0, affecting products from Canonical and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted .ics file. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) for an attacker to successfully exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libical_project:libical:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
18.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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