What is CVE-2016-1578?

CVE-2016-1578 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Oxide Project. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-05-13.

How severe is CVE-2016-1578?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Oxide Project

CVE-2016-1578

Use-after-free vulnerability in Oxide allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to responding synchronously to permission requests.

EPSS: 0.030 (86.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Oxide_project Oxide
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
N/a — versions n/a

References

security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1578?: CVE-2016-1578 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Oxide Project. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-05-13.
How severe is CVE-2016-1578?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.