Bug 1340079 (CVE-2016-5030) - CVE-2016-5030 libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_calculate_info_section_end_ptr()
Summary: CVE-2016-5030 libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_calculate_info_sec...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5030
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1340128 1340129
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-26 12:17 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:52:51 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 12:17:32 UTC 
A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in libdwarf in _dwarf_calculate_info_section_end_ptr() function.

References (with a link to PoC):

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

External references:

https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html

Upstream fix:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/6fa3f710ee6f21bba7966b963033a91d77c952bd
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 13:42:07 UTC 
Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1340128]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1340129]
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