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Bug 1340103 - (CVE-2016-5037) CVE-2016-5037 libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_load_section
CVE-2016-5037 libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_load_section
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Reported: 2016-05-26 09:02 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2016-05-26 09:43 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 09:02:33 EDT
A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in _dwarf_load_section.

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/b6ec2dfd850929821626ea63fb0a752076a3c08a
Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2016-05-26 09:17:55 EDT
Already fixed in Fedora.

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