Bug 1296986 (CVE-2015-8750)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8750 libdwarf: NULL pointer dereference in dwarf_utils.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, fche, orion
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Bug Depends On:	1294264, 1296989
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-01-08 15:49:44 UTC

A null pointer dereference was found in the libdwarf package. This flaw may result in a crash with specially crafted input.

This was originally filed as bug 1294264. 

CVE assignment: 

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/45

Upstream patch: 

11750a2838e52953013e3114ef27b3c7b1780697
in 
git://git.code.sf.net/p/libdwarf/code

Also available on GitHub:

https://github.com/tomhughes/libdwarf/commit/11750a2838e52953013e3114ef27b3c7b1780697

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-01-08 15:51:31 UTC

Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1296989]

Comment 2 Tom Hughes 2016-01-08 15:51:37 UTC

BTW my github repo is not the upstream... The upstream is the repo at git://git.code.sf.net/p/libdwarf/code.

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2016-01-08 15:57:41 UTC

(In reply to Tom Hughes from comment #2)
> BTW my github repo is not the upstream... The upstream is the repo at
> git://git.code.sf.net/p/libdwarf/code.

Thanks, I updated comment #0.