CVE-2026-21996
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
An unprivileged attacker can reliably trigger a crash of the dtrace process with a malicious ELF binary due to an integer Divide-by-Zero in Pbuild_file_symtab()
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.5
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-05-01 18:16:13.750000
Last modified
2026-10-26 21:10:00.170000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-05-01T18:16:13.750",
"lastModified": "2026-10-26T21:10:00.170",
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"value": "Un atacante sin privilegios puede provocar de forma fiable una caída del proceso dtrace con un binario ELF malicioso debido a una división por cero entera en Pbuild_file_symtab()"
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