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CVE-2016-6131

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6131 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the demangler component of GNU Libiberty. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop, stack overflow, and system crash by submitting specially crafted mangled types containing a reference cycle. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:libiberty:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0462 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-6131

gcc,gdb,binutils,libitm: Stack overflow vulnerability in libiberty demangler

Jun 29, 2016

References

gcc.gnu.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
gcc.gnu.org / ml/gcc-patches/2016-06/msg02030.html
Mailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/30/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/30/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/91519
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry