Bug 1340123 (CVE-2016-5027) - CVE-2016-5027 libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_decode_s_leb128
Summary: CVE-2016-5027 libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_decode_s_leb128
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5027
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-05-26 13:32 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-26 13:42:18 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 13:32:04 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in libdwarf. A malicious object with data all-bits-on could bypass length checks which results in an out-of-bounds read.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/393

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330237
Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2016-05-26 13:35:41 UTC 
Already fixed in Fedora.
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