CVE-2026-21996 (GCVE-0-2026-21996)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 17:51 – Updated: 2026-05-01 18:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-01 18:15 UTC
CWE
- 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()
- CWE-369 - Divide By Zero
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2026-21996.html | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Corporation | Oracle Linux |
Affected:
8
Affected: 9 Affected: 10 |
guessed |
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