CVE-2016-5434: Pacman Project Pacman

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libalpm, as used in pacman 5.0.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or out-of-bounds read) via a crafted signature file.

Affected products

• Pacman Project Pacman: version 5.0.1 only

Published 2017-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.