CVE-2016-8859 is a critical vulnerability affecting the TRE library and musl libc, stemming from multiple integer overflows. These overflows can be triggered by a large number of states or tags, leading to an out-of-bounds write and memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.1.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:etalabs:musl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.