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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-8859 json

Multiple integer overflows in the TRE library and musl libc allow attackers to cause memory corruption via a large number of (1) states or…

published 2017-02-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9684

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • tre Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.8.0-5
  • musl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.15-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8859

  • tre Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.8.0-3+deb7u1ubuntu1
  • tre Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.8.0-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
  • musl Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.9.15-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • musl Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.1.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8859

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • agrep openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.8.0_git201402282055-5.8
  • kubernetes openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.18.0-lp151.5.1
  • cri-o openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.17.1-lp151.2.2
  • go1.14 openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.14-lp151.6.1
  • cri-tools openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.18.0-lp151.2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11475-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0554-1

  • musl Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +17 more 1.1.15-r4
  • musl Alpine 3.2 1.1.11-r3
  • musl Alpine 3.3 1.1.12-r6
  • musl Alpine 3.4 1.1.14-r13

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-8859

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-8859 updated cvss 3.3

tre: Regex integer overflow in buffer size computations

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.