CVE-2016-5827

7.5 highEPSS 3.1%

High (7.5) in libical project libical. EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The icaltime_from_string function in libical 0.47 and 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a crafted string to the icalparser_parse_string function.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-01-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libical_project:libical

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/25/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91459
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281043
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/25/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91459

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