Bug 1340101 – CVE-2016-5035 libdwarf: Out-of-bounds read in _dwarf_read_line_table_header

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Bug 1340101 - (CVE-2016-5035) CVE-2016-5035 libdwarf: Out-of-bounds read in _dwarf_read_line_table_header

Summary:	CVE-2016-5035 libdwarf: Out-of-bounds read in _dwarf_read_line_table_header

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5035

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1340129 1340128
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Reported:	2016-05-26 08:51 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2016-05-26 09:48 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 08:51:08 EDT

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found line 62 of dwarf_line_table_reader.c. 

References:

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/82d8e007851805af0dcaaff41f49a2d48473334b

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 09:42:34 EDT

Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

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

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