CVE-2016-8859 (GCVE-0-2016-8859)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-13 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:35
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in the TRE library and musl libc allow attackers to cause memory corruption via a large number of (1) states or (2) tags, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.
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