Bug 1385690 (CVE-2016-8681) - CVE-2016-8681 libdwarf: Heap based buffer overflow in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code
Summary: CVE-2016-8681 libdwarf: Heap based buffer overflow in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-8681
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1385692 1385693
Blocks: 1385691
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-17 13:56 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-14 08:08:46 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-10-17 13:56:53 UTC 
An out of bounds heap read vulnerability was found in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code triggered by invoking dwarfdump command on crafted file.

Upstream patches:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/2d14a7792889e33bc542c28d0f3792964c46214f/#diff-13
https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/efe48cad0693d6994d9a7b561e1c3833b073a624/#diff-2

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/146
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-10-17 14:00:22 UTC 
Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1385692]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1385693]
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