CVE-2016-4489: GNU Libiberty

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the gnu_special function in libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted binary, related to the "demangling of virtual tables."

Affected products

• GNU Libiberty: any version

Published 2017-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.