Bug 1398176 – CVE-2016-9558 libdwarf: Negation overflow in dwarf_leb.c

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Bug 1398176 - (CVE-2016-9558) CVE-2016-9558 libdwarf: Negation overflow in dwarf_leb.c

Summary:	CVE-2016-9558 libdwarf: Negation overflow in dwarf_leb.c

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9558

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:	1399992
Blocks:	1394806
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Reported:	2016-11-24 04:30 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2016-12-15 02:33 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-12-15 02:33:48 EST
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-24 04:30:42 EST

A negation overflow vulnerability was found in dwarf_leb.c triggered by crafted input to dwarfdump utility.

Upstream patch:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/4f19e1050cd8e9ddf2cb6caa061ff2fec4c9b5f9/#diff-5

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/471

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-11-30 03:42:03 EST

Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1399992]

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