CVE-2016-6559 is a critical vulnerability affecting FreeBSD, stemming from improper bounds checking in the link_ntoa() function within the BSD libc library. This flaw could allow an attacker to read or write to memory, potentially leading to severe compromise (CVSS 9.8 Critical). Despite its high severity score, exploitation is considered highly unlikely as applications rarely use the function in an exploitable manner. There are no known exploits, proof-of-concepts, or active exploitation, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.