Critical
Security advisory
libical allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) and possibly read heap memory via a crafted ics file.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9584
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libical allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) and possibly read heap memory via a crafted ics file.
osv:CVE-2016-9584
Complete source record
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