CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-21996

Divide By Zero

Published: May 01, 2026 | Modified: May 05, 2026

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21996
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/369.html

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()

Weakness

The product divides a value by zero.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Linux	Oracle	8 (including)	8 (including)
Linux	Oracle	9-0 (including)	9-0 (including)
Linux	Oracle	10-0 (including)	10-0 (including)

References

https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2026-21996.html

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