Bug 1340123 (CVE-2016-5027)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5027 libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_decode_s_leb128
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 13:32:04 UTC

A vulnerability was found in libdwarf. A malicious object with data all-bits-on could bypass length checks which results in an out-of-bounds read.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/393

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330237

Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2016-05-26 13:35:41 UTC

Already fixed in Fedora.