Bug 1376361 – CVE-2016-7410 libdwarf: Heap buffer overflow in _dwarf_read_loc_section

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Bug 1376361 - (CVE-2016-7410) CVE-2016-7410 libdwarf: Heap buffer overflow in _dwarf_read_loc_section

Summary:	CVE-2016-7410 libdwarf: Heap buffer overflow in _dwarf_read_loc_section

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2016-7410

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:	1376363 1376362
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Reported:	2016-09-15 04:36 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2016-09-16 09:33 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-09-15 04:36:37 EDT

A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was found in the latest libdwarf 20160613 version.

References (with PoC attached):

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/490

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-09-15 04:37:06 EDT

Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1376362]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1376363]

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