CVE-2016-4491: GNU Libiberty

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The d_print_comp function in cp-demangle.c in libiberty allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted binary, which triggers infinite recursion and a buffer overflow, related to a node having "itself as ancestor more than once."

Affected products

• GNU Libiberty: any version

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