CVE-2016-4973

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4973
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4973.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4973
Downstream
Published
2017-06-07T20:29:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Binaries compiled against targets that use the libssp library in GCC for stack smashing protection (SSP) might allow local users to perform buffer overflow attacks by leveraging lack of the Object Size Checking feature.

References

Affected packages